John McCall MacBain

John McCall MacBain
OC
20th Chancellor of McGill University
In office
July 1, 2021 – July 9, 2024
Preceded byMichael Meighen
Succeeded byPierre Boivin
Personal details
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Alma mater

John H. McCall MacBain OC (born in 1958) is a Canadian[1] businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm.[2][3] Prior to establishing the McCall MacBain Foundation, in the late 1980s he bought Auto Hebdo magazine in Montréal, Canada and bought and consolidated hundreds of other existing Auto Traders and Buy and Sell classified papers and websites to form Trader Classified Media, the world's leading classified advertising company.

Education and personal life

McCall MacBain received an MBA from Harvard Business School (1984),[4] an MA in Law (Jurisprudence) from Wadham College, Oxford (1982), as a Rhodes Scholar and an Honours BA in economics from McGill University (1980).[4] He holds honorary degrees from Dalhousie University,[5] the University of Ottawa,[6] Brock University,[7] McGill University[8] and Monash University.[9]

He served as president of the Students' Society of McGill University, as well as valedictorian. While at Oxford, he was co-captain of the university's ice hockey team.[10]

McCall MacBain has five children[11] and three grandchildren. He is married to Marcy McCall MacBain,[12] an academic at the University of Oxford in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.[13] He is also an avid skier, marathon runner, swimmer, ice hockey player and cyclist as well as a commercial land and sea pilot.[1]

Career

He worked from 1984 to 1987 as director of marketing at Power Financial Corporation.

From 1987 to 2006, McCall MacBain was the founder, President and CEO of Trader Classified Media, the world's leading classified advertising company.[4] Starting with his purchase of three small publications in Montréal in 1987, when he was 29 years old, he developed the classified business to include 500 print titles and 57 internet sites in over 23 countries, including in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Spain and the United States.[14]

After its IPO in 2000, Trader Classified Media was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange.[15] In 2006, McCall MacBain sold the company and set up the McCall MacBain Foundation.[2]

He was Chancellor of McGill University for a three-year term from 2021 to 2024,[16] and is now Chancellor Emeritus.[17] He is also a member of The Giving Pledge.[18]

Philanthropy

Since its formation in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007, the McCall MacBain Foundation has made approximately $500 million of grants to fund projects relating to education and scholarships, climate change and the environment and youth mental health. In addition to his role as a director and Chair of the foundation, McCall MacBain is the Founding Chair of the European Climate Foundation,[19] Chancellor Emeritus of McGill University, a member of the Advisory Board for the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy[20] and a Foundation Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.[21] Additionally, he is a director of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa.[22]

McCall MacBain, a Canadian Rhodes Scholar (Quebec and Wadham, 1980), donated $120 million to the Rhodes Trust in order to help fund the scholarships and aid the expansion of the program to new countries. He made that gift in September 2013 during the Rhodes 110th anniversary celebrations.[23][24] As a result, he was named a 'Second Century Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships' in honour of that significant gift.[25] Additionally, McCall MacBain was honoured in 2014 as a Fellow of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors at Oxford University and at Rhodes House, where his portrait hangs and a room bears his name.[26] The McCall MacBain Graduate Centre at Wadham College, Oxford, was endowed by him.[27]

McCall MacBain has also donated more than $10 million to fund McCall MacBain Loran Scholars through the Loran Scholars Foundation – the largest undergraduate entry scholarship program in Canada – and to fund the Mandela Rhodes Foundation.[28][29]

On June 30, 2016, McCall MacBain was named an Officer of the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston for "his achievements as a business leader and for his contributions to academic institutions as a philanthropist."[30]

On February 13, 2019, John and Marcy McCall MacBain donated $200 million to McGill University, the single-largest charitable gift in Canada at the time, for a graduate scholarship program – the McCall MacBain Scholarship at McGill – modelled on the Rhodes Scholarship.[31]

In 2019, the McCall MacBain Foundation also seeded the Kupe Leadership Scholarship at the University of Auckland.[32][33]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bios". Newsroom.
  2. ^ a b "McCall MacBain Foundation: About Us: Our Story". McCall MacBain Foundation. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  3. ^ "Pamoja Capital: What We Do". Pamoja Capital. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Small ads, big news - Telegraph". London: telegraph.co.uk. June 5, 2005. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  5. ^ "October 2010 Honorary Degree Recipient". Dalhousie University. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  6. ^ "Our Spring 2018 Honorary Doctorate recipients". University of Ottawa. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  7. ^ "Brock will honour John McCall MacBain at Fall Convocation". Brock University. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  8. ^ "14 individuals to receive honorary degree from McGill". McGill University. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  9. ^ "Honorary doctorates conferred upon international philanthropists John McCall MacBain and Marcy McCall MacBain". Monash University. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  10. ^ "A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey". www.azhockey.com. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  11. ^ "Marcy McCall MacBain '00". alumni.mcmaster.ca.
  12. ^ "John McCall MacBain named 20th Chancellor of McGill University". Newsroom.
  13. ^ "Marcy McCall MacBain". Kellogg College.
  14. ^ "John MacBain - The Classified Ad King". www.canadianbusiness.com. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  15. ^ "History of Trader Classified Media". www.fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  16. ^ "John McCall MacBain named 20th Chancellor of McGill University". Channels. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  17. ^ "Highlights from the April 25, 2024 Board of Governors meeting". Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
  18. ^ "Press Release - The Giving Pledge". Giving Pledge. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  19. ^ "ECF Founding Chair". European Climate Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  20. ^ "Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy". Yale University. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  21. ^ "Wadham Foundation Fellow receives University's highest award". Wadham College, University of Oxford. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  22. ^ "Mandela Rhodes Foundation Trustees". Mandela Rhodes Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  23. ^ "Rhodes Scholarship gets donation of $120 million". Kansas City Star. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  24. ^ "Giving it up for Cecil". The Economist. September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  25. ^ "Second Century Founder - The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. September 19, 2013. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  26. ^ "Two Rhodes Scholars honoured at the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors - The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. October 10, 2014. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  27. ^ "Record breaking donation by Wadham alumnus secures a bright future for Rhodes scholars". Wadham.ox.ac.uk. September 19, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  28. ^ "John and Marcy McCall MacBain - Loran Scholars Foundation". Loran Scholars Foundation - Fondation Boursiers Loran. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  29. ^ "Donors & Partners". The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  30. ^ Globe and Mail Staff (June 30, 2016). "Canada's Honour Roll". Globe and Mail.
  31. ^ Sarah Leavitt (February 13, 2019). "McGill University receives $200M donation for graduate scholarships". CBC News.
  32. ^ "The Kupe Leadership Scholarships at the University of Auckland". McCall MacBain Foundation. December 17, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  33. ^ "Next generation of leaders called for Kupe Leadership Scholarships - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved May 18, 2019.

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