Suzanne Labarge ‘67

Suzanne Labarge received a BA in economics from McMaster in 1967 and a MBA from Harvard University in 1971. She worked for the Royal Bank for 14 years before spending a decade with the federal government in several senior positions, including deputy superintendent of financial institutions.She returned to executive positions in RBC, retiring asits vice–chairman and chief risk officer in 2004.

Thanks to a gift of $10 million, McMaster University has been given the resources to support a major initiative to promote healthy aging and to make that knowledge widely available. The enterprise is being sparked by businesswoman and McMaster graduate Suzanne Labarge. She has given a gift of $10 million to McMaster for a program sponsoring interdisciplinary research and a website portal on healthy aging that will provide accessible information for the public as well as health care professionals, researchers and policy makers. The program is called the Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative.