{"id":12804,"date":"2024-09-10T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12804"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:44:31","slug":"gail-cook-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/gail-cook-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Cook-Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Gail Cook-Bennett\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Gail-Cook-Bennett-160x191.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Gail-Cook-Bennett-160x191.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Gail-Cook-Bennett-200x238.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Gail-Cook-Bennett.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gail Cook-Bennett, Chair, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 12:30 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, June 12, &#8220;in recognition of an outstanding contribution to Canadian business through effective leadership, and service to the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Gail Cook-Bennett has served as Director on a long list of some of the top private and public sector boards in Canada, including Manulife Financial, Petro Canada, the Toronto-Dominion Bank, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a member of the Board of the Bank of Canada, she chaired the Special Committee of the Board charged with appointing, with the approval of the Governor in Council, the Governor and Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada. Her achievements have earned her the honour of Fellow by the Institute of Corporate Directors, and a Montreal YWCA Honour for Contribution to Working Women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Cook-Bennett, Chair, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 12:30 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, June 12, &#8220;in recognition of an outstanding contribution to Canadian business through effective leadership, and service to the community.&#8221; Dr. Gail Cook-Bennett has served as Director on a long list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13449,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12804\/revisions\/13449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}