Barbara Zvan is the Chief Risk & Strategy Officer for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. She leads the Strategy & Risk team in supporting the Plan Sponsors in plan design decisions; the Board in determining the appropriate benchmarks and risk appetite; and the Investment division in designing a long-horizon total fund strategy. She drives the fund’s responsible investing and climate change risk managementstrategy and directs the organization’s enterprise and operational risk management approach.
Ms. Zvan is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and holds an Institute of Corporate Directors designation and a Master of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo. She serves as the chair of the International Centre of Pension Management and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s Investor Advisory Group, and on the boards of the Global Risk Institute, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and the Chilean water utilities Esval (Essbio) S.A. She was one of four members of the Government of Canada’s Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, which delivered its final recommendations in June 2019, and is an honouree of Canada’s 2020 Clean50.
