Donald A. Stewart is Chief Executive Officer of Sun Life Financial Inc.
A native of Scotland, Don joined Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada in London, England in 1969 and emigrated to Montreal in 1972.
In 1974, Don left the Company to work as a consultant in Toronto. He returned in 1980 to lead the Canadian Group Retirement Services Division. From 1986 to 1998 he held successive leadership positions in mutual funds, information technology, trust services, actuarial and worldwide operations. In 1998 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer.
Don is a director of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association, the American Council of Life Insurers and international aluminum products company Novelis Inc. He is a member of the Board of The Geneva Association, an international insurance think tank and research institution. In 2009, Don was appointed Chairman of Canada’s National Task Force on Financial Literacy.
Born in 1946, Don holds a degree in Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1968 with first class honours. He became a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in 1972, and attended the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School in 1991.
