OTTAWA (REUTERS) - The head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Mr Mark Machin, has resigned after his trip to the United Arab Emirates for vaccination against Covid-19 flouted Canadian government s travel advice and drew criticism.
CPPIB on Friday (Feb 26) named Mr John Graham, currently senior managing director and global head of credit investments, as the new chief executive officer of the country s largest pension fund.
Mr Machin, 54, becomes the second senior Canadian corporate executive to resign after attempting to jump vaccine queue, underscoring the frustration among some about the country s slow vaccine roll out. It was a complete lapse of moral judgment which risked undermining people s trust both in government policy and the stewardship of their public pension provision, said Mr David Wheeler, a former business professor at York University, adding that clearly he had to go immediately .
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