John McCall MacBain

John McCall MacBain
OC
20th Chancellor of McGill University
In office
2021–2024
Preceded byMichael Meighen
Succeeded byPierre Boivin
Personal details
Born1958 (age 65–66)
EducationMcGill University (BA)
Wadham College, Oxford (MA)
Harvard University (MBA)

John H. McCall MacBain OC (born in 1958) is a Swiss-based,[1] Canadian billionaire 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.

  1. ^ "Bios". Newsroom.
  2. ^ "McCall MacBain Foundation: About Us: Our Story". McCall MacBain Foundation. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Pamoja Capital: What We Do". Pamoja Capital. Retrieved 4 October 2019.