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William Downe is
President and Chief Executive Officer of BMO Financial Group. He
was appointed CEO on March 1, 2007.
Mr. Downe joined
Bank of Montreal in 1983 and held a variety of senior management
positions in Denver, Houston, Chicago and Toronto. In 1999, he was
appointed Vice-Chair, Bank of Montreal and, in 2001, he was named
Deputy Chair of BMO Financial Group and Chief Executive Officer,
BMO Nesbitt Burns. In 2006, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer
of BMO Financial Group.
In 2008, he was
appointed President of the Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Advisory
Council (FAC), which is composed of 12 banking industry leaders in
the United States named to represent their Federal Reserve Districts.
Mr. Downe has served as a member of the FAC since 2006.
He serves as a
member of the International Monetary Conference and its 2008 Program
Committee, a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and
a member of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council of
the Mayor of Beijing.
In the community,
Mr. Downe currently serves as Chairman of the Campaign Cabinet for
United Way of Greater Toronto. He is a member of Toronto’s
St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation Board. He is a director of
Catalyst, a leading organization that promotes women's leadership
in business, and a member of Catalyst’s Canadian Board of Advisors.
He is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. He is also past Chair
of the Board of Directors of St. Michael’s Hospital and a past
board member of Goodwill Industries of Chicago.
He holds a bachelor
of arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a master of business
administration from the University of Toronto. He received the Rotman
Distinguished Business Alumni Award from the Joseph L. Rotman School
of Management in 2003, and an Arbor Award from the University of
Toronto in recognition of outstanding personal service to the University
in 2005.
(October
2009)
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