Galen G. Weston is Chairman of Loblaw Companies Limited, part of George Weston Limited, where he is also Chairman & CEO, and the fourth generation of family leaders. As the country’s leading retailer, Loblaw provides grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, apparel, general merchandise, and financial services to over 18 million Canadians.
A proponent for a sustainable and values-based approach to business, Galen regularly advocates for long-term thinking, including as the author of “Family Firms and ‘Patient Capital’: Thinking in Decades, not Quarters,” which was published in Re-imagining Capitalism (Oxford University Press).
He is Chairman of President’s Choice Bank and Wittington Investments Limited, as well as President of the Weston Family Foundation which has given more than $700 million to education, the arts, human microbiome and neurological health, land conservation, and science in Canada’s North.
