Top 25 List | Women of Influence

They are teachers, doctors, lawyers, marketers, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, mothers, daughters, champions of inclusivity, the epitome of strength. They will change our world.

1. Zabeen Hirji

Chief Human Resources Officer, RBC Financial Group
2. Teri Currie

Group Head, Direct Channels, Corporate and People Strategies, TD Bank Group
3. Willa Black

Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Cisco Canada
4. Kirstine Stewart

Executive Vice President, English Services, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
5. Heather Reisman

Founder & CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.

1. Dr. Eve C. Tsai

Neurosurgeon, Division of Neurosurgery, The Ottawa Hospital; Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Ottawa; Associate Scientist, Neuroscience, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
2. Mary Jo Haddad

President & Chief Executive Officer, The Hospital for Sick Children
3. Janet M. Davidson

President & Chief Executive Officer, Trillium Health Centre
4. Sue Paish

Chief Executive Officer, Pharmasave Drugs (National) Ltd.
5. Dr. Jennifer Blake

Chief of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

1. Dale Ponder

Managing Partner and Chief Executive, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
2. Eileen Mercier

Chair, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
3. Evelyn Jacks

Founder and President, The Knowledge Bureau
4. Lynda Bowles

Partner, Audit & Advisory Services, Public Sector Group, Deloitte & Touche LLP
5. Beth Symes

Partner, Symes & Street

1. Dr. Olga Kovalchuk

Professor and Board of Governors’ Research Chair, CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Lethbridge
2. Dr. Sandra Smeltzer

Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario
3. Dr. Fiona Costello

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Calgary
4. Carol Stephenson

Dean, Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario
5. Dr. Ann Cavoukian

Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario