Mark S. Bonham

Mark is a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. An LGBTQ educator and activist, Mark was included in the Financial Times of London (UK) OUTstanding LGBT Global Business Leaders list in 2017 and was named the 2018 Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Mark has had an extensive career in the Canadian financial industry, having founded two public mutual fund companies in Canada. Mark is the author or editor of six books to date: Trade-Offs: The History of Canada-U.S. Trade Negotiations (2019), Becoming 150: 150 Years of Canadian Business History (2018), A Path to Diversity: LGBTQ Participation in the Working World (2017), Notables: 101 Global LGBTQ People who Changed the World (2015), and Champions: Biographies of Global LGBTQ Pioneers (2014). Mark is also a contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia on the financial industry. A Co-Founder and Member of the Board of the Canadian Business History Association, Mark is the past Board Chair of the Toronto Botanical Garden and has endowed the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. At the University’s Rotman School of Management, Mark has endowed the Bonham Chair in International Finance and created the Bonham Scholarship for MBA students.
Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings