Carol Wilding, FCA, President and CEO

Carol Wilding has been President and CEO of the Toronto Board of Trade since 2007.

Over the past four years Ms. Wilding has harnessed the energy of Canada's largest local Chamber of Commerce and its 10,000 members to position the Board as an influential thought leader on key business and public policy issues impacting the Toronto region's globally competitive economy.

Under her leadership, the Board has also enhanced the benefits of members through the introduction of key industry speaker series, business-to-business networking events, partnered-learning opportunities and business development tools.

Ms. Wilding currently serves as a director on the Boards of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance. She is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization as well as an Advisory Board member for the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation.

Prior to joining the Toronto Board of Trade, Ms. Wilding was president of Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, and president of Plan Canada (formerly Foster Parents Plan).

For her leadership in the not-for-profit sector, Ms. Wilding was named to the Top 100™ list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women for 2010. In 2009 she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. She is a recipient of the Schulich Business School's Outstanding Public Contribution Alumni Award, the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal and the Public Sector Excellence Award for Technology.

Ms. Wilding holds an Honours degree in Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University.