Evan Howard

Evan Howard is Vice-President of Pension Management at the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan (CAAT Plan), a jointly-sponsored multi-employer pension plan that serves over 40 employers, including Ontario's 24 colleges, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Ottawa Youth Services Bureau. He is responsible for pension policy development, governance, and regulatory compliance at the CAAT Plan, and oversees the Plan's communication and stakeholder relations groups. Prior to joining the CAAT Plan, Evan was a partner in the Toronto office of Norton Rose, and before that, a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, practicing exclusively in the area of pension and benefits law, with a special focus on the pension and benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. From 1998 to 2000, he practiced pensions at Freshfields in London, England.

Evan is the past-Chair of the Ontario Regional Council of the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) and currently serves on the ACPM's National Policy Committee. Evan is also the past-Chair of the Trinity College Board of Trustees, where he served as a Trustee from 2008 to 2015. He is a recipient of an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto, in recognition of his volunteer service at Trinity and the University of Toronto. Evan was called to the Ontario Bar in 1996 and became a solicitor in England and Wales in 2000. He holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto (Trinity College) and an LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario.