Graham Scott
Non-Executive Vice Chair
Graham Scott joined OEB Enterprise at the beginning of 2008, bringing with him extensive experience in governance in the voluntary sector and in the assessment of boards and management teams in both the voluntary and private sectors. A senior partner and former Managing Partner of McMillan Binch Mendelsohn, he leads the firm’s public policy and government issues practice with a particular emphasis on health care issues.
Following two years of law practice in Toronto, Graham served as executive assistant to the Leader of the Opposition for Canada from 1970 to 1976. In 1976 he joined the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney-General and in 1977 he became Assistant Deputy General, Courts Administration and Inspector of Legal Offices. In 1978 he became Associate Secretary of the Cabinet and in 1979 Deputy Minister of Environment where he served until late 1981 when he became Deputy Minister of Health. He joined McMillan Binch in January 1984 and served as managing partner from 2000 onward.
From 1988 to 1992 the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association jointly retained Graham as Chair of the Task Force on the Use and Provision of Medical Services. In 1993, he served as Chair of the Health Service Export Advisory Committee, which led to the creation of Interhealth Canada Limited. In 1994 he was an independent fact finder for the Ministry of Health, the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Hospital Association and presented a report on physician coverage for small/rural hospital emergency departments. He was appointed Chair of the Transition Team for Cancer Care Ontario. He has also served as the independent Chair of Co-Chair of several different hospital amalgamation processes, all of which involved extensive facilitation, mediation and negotiation.
In 1993 Graham was appointed Co-Chair of the Prime Ministers Advisory Committee on Government Restructuring. He subsequently became a member of the successor group, the Advisory Committee on the Public Service.
Graham serves as Chair of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and as Vice Chair of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Graham is a Director of Sanofi Pasteur Limited; the Atlantic Salmon Federation; AllerGen NCE Inc., and a Trustee of the Retirement Residents Real Estate Investment Trust. Graham is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Rotman Research Institute of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. Graham is also a Trustee of the Forum for Young Canadians. He is a former Chairman of Organ Donation Ontario and a former Chairman of the Public Policy Forum, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting greater collaboration between the public and private sectors, and a past President and Director of the Friends of H.M.C.S. Haida.
