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Job Title: Policy Advisor |
Biography
Kim Samuel-Johnson is a Director of The Samuel Group of Companies, a Canadian family business founded in 1855, which consists of a network of operations across North America, engaged in the processing, manufacturing and distribution of steel and other metals. Kim is Director of The Samuel Group’s CSR Program, which comprises the corporate philanthropy and community outreach activities of the company.
She is President of The Samuel Family Foundation, which has a long history of supporting the arts, health care and education in Canada. In recent years, under Kim’s leadership, the Foundation has broadened its mandate in the international arena by actively engaging in a number of multi-sectoral partnerships directed toward global poverty alleviation, human rights advocacy, environmental sustainability, disability rights and family support, basic primary education and youth empowerment.
She is a Director of the Synergos Institute, Special Olympics International and the Temenos Academy, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Member of the Chairman’s Council of Conservation International, Member of the Board of Advisors of Project Q at the Harvard School of Public Health, Advisor to the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a Member of the Human Rights Watch Africa Division Advisory Committee, Member of the Women’s Leadership Board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Member of the TransFair USA Advisory Board, Member of the Advisory Board of TakingItGlobal a Member of the International Sustainability Innovation Council of Switzerland, Fellow of the Australia Davos Connection and Founding Member of the Global Philanthropists Circle.
Ms. Samuel-Johnson lives in Toronto, Canada with her 16 year-old daughter, Caitlin.
