Alison Loat is the managing director of FCLTGlobal, a U.S. 501(c)3 founded by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow, McKinsey & Company and Tata to encourage long-term behaviors in business and investment decision-making. She is also a board director of Ai-Media, a technology company that makes educational, workplace, conference and media content accessible. Alison's career began at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on healthcare and financial services. She also worked with Commonwealth Pension Services, where she set-up a retirement income plan for charitable sector workers, and held several leadership roles in the healthcare sector, including on the founding team of the MaRS Discovery District, a 1.5 million square foot scientific commercialization facility in Toronto. She cares deeply about politics and public service. She is on the Advisory Boards of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders' program and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, a fellow at the Public Policy Forum and a governor of Ridley College. She co-founded the Samara Centre for Democracy and wrote a best-selling book on the decline of democracy and politics, and received the Queen's Gold and Diamond Jubilee medals for service to Canada.