Douglas Emsley

President, Emsley & Associates Inc.

Mr. Emsley is from Regina, Saskatchewan. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Business Administration, both from York University.

Mr Emsley was appointed to the Board of the Bank of Canada in 2007, and is a member of the Bank’s Audit Committee and is also Chairman of the Capital Projects Committee.

Mr. Emsley is Chairman and President of the Assiniboia Capital Corp.,  the largest farmland ownership and management company in Canada. He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SRG Security Resource Group Inc., a private investigation and security company that specialises in airport security, and President and Founder of SabreWest Oil & Gas Ltd. Previously; he served as Assistant Principal Secretary to the Premier of Saskatchewan and as Chief of Staff to the Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Mines.

Mr. Emsley is a director of the Public Policy Forum. In the past, he was a director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy and a director of Royal Utilities Income Fund, a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange. He is also a founding member of the Saskatchewan Oil Industry Board of Governors.