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Evan Siddall (born 1965) is the current President & Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Davis Phinney Foundation.

Background
Siddall holds a B.A. in Management Economics from the University of Guelph, and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He also participates in an annual executive education program at Harvard Business School.

Career
Siddall entered public service in 2010, joining the Bank of Canada as Special Advisor to the Governor and the Bank’s Senior Representative in Toronto, Canada’s financial centre. He was appointed CEO of CMHC for a five year term effective January 1, 2014. In 2018 his term was renewed for another two years, to December 2020 He is leading CMHC as it implements Canada’s 10-year National Housing Strategy.

Siddall spent five years at Burns Fry Limited (later BMO Nesbitt Burns) (1989-1994) before leaving as Managing Director to become a Vice President of Goldman Sachs & Co in 1997. Promoted to Managing Director in 2001, he left Goldman in 2002 to join Lazard Frères & Co as Resident Managing Director and Head of Canada. Siddall joined Fort Reliance Limited, the parent company of Irving Oil Limited, as Corporate Finance Officer in 2009.

Siddall is a former chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Guelph, and the Counsel of Chairs of Ontario Universities. He is a past president of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the Osler Bluff Ski Club. Siddall is also a co-founder of craft brewery Side Launch Brewing Co.

Personal Life
Siddall was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended Bishop Macdonell Catholic High School in Guelph, Ontario. He has two adult children.

Siddall, who was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease in 2014, founded an annual fundraiser for Parkinson’s, the Growling Beaver Brevet. He joined the Board of the Davis Phinney Foundation in 2016.