Rod Lohin

Rod Lohin is Executive Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Since 2005, Rod has overseen the Lee-Chin Institute’s research, grants, and initiatives to reach business leaders and engage MBA students in corporate sustainability, providing strategic advice and research to RBC Financial Group, SunLife, Blackberry and others.

Rod was formerly the Director of the corporate practice at Manifest, where he developed corporate citizenship strategies and programs for Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Kellogg, and Sears and others in Canada and abroad. The work for Ericsson to help improve the global response to disasters was implemented worldwide and recognized by the UN Global Compact, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

Previously, he was Director, Partnerships and Projects for United Way of Greater Toronto. He started his career as a management consultant at Toronto-based consulting firm Patterson Kirk Wallace.

Companies

• Sessional Lecturer and MBA research project supervisor Rotman School of Management (2004)
• Executive Director, Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship Rotman School of Management (2004)
• Executive Director, Rotman Alumni Network Rotman School of Management (2001 — 2015)
• Director, Corporate Social Responsibility practice Manifest Communications (1997 — 2001)
• Director, Partnerships and Projects United Way of Greater Toronto (1994 — 1997)
• Senior Consultant Patterson Kirk Wallace (1989 — 1994)

Education

• University of Oxford - Said Business School (2017 — 2017)
• Master of Arts York University (1987 — 1988)
• BA (Honours) The University of British Columbia / UBC (1983 — 1987)