Dominic Barton

Founded

Barton co-founded FCLT Global, a non-profit promoting long-term investment. Barton co-founded Century Initiative, advocating for policies to grow Canada's population to 100 million by 2100.

Education

Studied at University of British Columbia (BA, economics) Studied at Brasenose College, Oxford (MPhil, economics)

Boards

Barton co-founded FCLT Global (Focusing Capital on the Long Term), a non-profit promoting long-term investment. He chaired the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He co-founded Century Initiative, a non-partisan network advocating to grow Canada's population to 100 million by 2100. He served on the boards of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Brookings Institution as a senior trustee. He was a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust from 2010 to 2018 and remains a member of its Founder's Circle. He served on the Max Bell School of Public Policy Advisory Board at McGill University and the Cabinet of the University of Toronto Psychiatry Campaign. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.

Communities

He is known in China as Bao Damin.

Awards

Barton was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Glassdoor ranked Barton among the top global CEOs in 2016.

Family

Barton was born in Mukono, Uganda, in 1962, to an Anglican missionary father and a nurse mother, and his family moved to Canada when he was seven.

More

As Canada's Ambassador to China, Barton led efforts to secure the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians imprisoned in China.

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