Anne-Marie Canning

Ms. Canning is a gender empowerment philanthropist giving significant support to the advancement of women through the Canadian Women’s Foundation, the TIFF Share Her Journey Fund helping women in film and the Emmy Noether Society at Perimeter which seeks to mentor, encourage and ensure more women are represented in science and physics. The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is an independent research centre in foundational theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario. 

Canning lives in Toronto where she is respected as a modern, conscious philanthropist and a true Canadian nationalist. Canning is unwavering in her commitment to investing in the essence of what creates and sustains a 21st century Canadian society – innovation, culture, diversity of thought and application of the best in technological advances.