The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) announced that members of the association have elected Medavie CEO, Bernard Lord, to serve as the association’s chair for 2022 and 2023.
Prior to becoming CEO of Medavie, he served eight years on its board of directors overseeing Medavie Blue Cross and Medavie Health Services. He was appointed CEO of the company in 2016. Lord has also served on several boards, including the board of directors for Ontario Power Generation. Today, he is the chair of the International Federation of Health Plans, an international association of insurance payers, headquartered in London, England. He is also the incoming president of the Canadian Association of Blue Cross Plans.
Lord was also the premier of New Brunswick from 1999 until 2006. He was then president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association of Canada.
In the CLHIA role, a one-year term, Lord is replacing outgoing chair, Manulife Canada’s CEO, Michael Doughty, who announced his September retirement earlier this year. (Naveed Irshad took over as Manulife’s Canada segment CEO on June 1.)
