Philanthropy
McCall MacBain currently devotes a significant amount of his time to non-profit activities. Since its formation in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007, the McCall MacBain Foundation has made tens of millions of dollars of grants to fund projects relating to health, education and the environment in Canada, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in the West African country of Liberia. In addition to his role as a director of the McCall MacBain Foundation, McCall MacBain is a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust (Oxford) which was established in the early 1900's to fund and oversee the Rhodes Scholarships worldwide and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (Cape Town). McCall MacBain is also a founder and Chairman of the European Climate Foundation, a non-profit organization aiming to promote energy policies that greatly reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions and help Europe play an even stronger international leadership role in mitigating climate change. McCall MacBain is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy at Yale, a trustee of the Trudeau Foundation in Canada, a Foundation Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and a member of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors of Oxford University.
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