Mr. Donald Lindsay was appointed President of Teck in January 2005 and assumed the additional responsibility of Chief Executive Officer in April 2005. Before joining Teck, Mr. Lindsay was President of CIBC World Markets and led the bank’s Investment and Corporate Banking Division as well as the Asia Pacific Region. Earlier in his career he was responsible for CIBC’s Global Mining Group.

Mr. Lindsay is a member of the Board of Directors of Manulife Financial Corporation and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. He is Chair of the Board of Governors for Mining and Metals for the World Economic Forum, a member of the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Economic Advisory Council, and serves on the Executive Committee for the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference. Mr. Lindsay is also a Director of B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation in Vancouver and served as Chair of the successful $200-million capital campaign to build a new acute care hospital.

Mr. Lindsay previously served for several years on the Board of the Canada China Business Council. He has also been a division chair for Natural Resources for the United Way of the Lower Mainland in British Columbia. As Chair of the International Zinc Association from 2007 to 2011, Mr. Lindsay led the development and launch of the Zinc Saves Kids campaign, a program developed in partnership with UNICEF to address zinc deficiency. Under his leadership, Teck also launched a Zinc & Health program, which to date has helped improve the health of more than five million children worldwide.

In 2014 Mr. Lindsay was a recipient of a British Columbia Community Achievement Award, the CIM Distinguished Service Medal and next year he will be inducted into the Order of British Columbia.

Mr. Lindsay has a B.Sc., (Hons.) Mining Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2013 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.