Highest-Paid Directors in Ontario (2025)

In 2025, 16,815 director roles appeared on the Ontario Sunshine List, earning an average of $164,613 and a median of $157,807. The highest-paid was Marcela Carena Lopez (Executive Director at Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics) at $650,000. Directors across the public sector, from program directors to executive directors.

Figures cover disclosed public-sector employees only (those above Ontario’s $100,000 disclosure threshold). Records span 1996–2025.

Directors disclosed (2025)

16,815

Average

$164,613

Median

$157,807

Highest

$650,000

Top 25 highest-paid directors (2025)

#	Name	Job title	Employer	Total
1	Marcela Carena Lopez	Executive Director	Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics	$650,000
2	Leslie Radvanyi	President and Scientific Director	Ontario Institute For Cancer Research	$539,745
3	Zulfiqar Bhutta	Co-Director, Global Child Health	The Hospital For Sick Children	$522,882
4	Joshua Basseches	Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général	Royal Ontario Museum	$519,780
5	Kevin Katz	Director	North York General Hospital	$514,150
6	George Yousef	Program Medical Director	University Health Network	$511,121
7	David Kirsch	Director, Radiation Medicine	University Health Network	$477,687
8	Sasan Zandi	Hematology Director	Unity Health Toronto	$472,917
9	Mashalah Eshghabadi	Medical Laboratory Director	Norfolk General Hospital	$471,685
10	Andrea Waddell	Psychiatrist / Medical Director	Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care	$467,696
11	Achal Mishra	Psychiatrist / Medical Director	Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care	$461,053
12	Jim Clayton	Professor/Endowed Chair/Director/Program Director	York University	$461,039
13	Joseph Lyn	Managing Director Real Estate Investments	Ontario Power Generation	$455,825
14	Susy Hota	Director, Infection Prevention and Control	University Health Network	$453,226
15	Tom Mikkelsen	Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director	Ontario Brain Institute	$450,000
16	Paul Kerr	Managing Director Private Markets	Ontario Power Generation	$447,005
17	Peter Simpson	Senior Director Projects	Ontario Power Generation	$443,952
18	Ghattas Dallal	Managing Director Public Markets	Ontario Power Generation	$443,405
19	Carlos Yep	Director, Funding	Ontario Financing Authority	$440,862
20	Ajit Ninan	Medical Director	Children, Community and Social Services	$438,647
21	Lisa Strug	Professor of Statistical Sciences and Computer Science and Director Ontario Regional Centre of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute	University Of Toronto	$434,232
22	Jean-Paul Lamoureux	Director, Debt Management	Ontario Financing Authority	$432,510
23	Elspeth Murray	Director (Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Social Impact), Academic Director (Master of Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship), Associate Professor	Queen's University	$425,762
24	Katherine Mckay	Psychiatrist / Medical Director	Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care	$424,430
25	Katerina Pavenski	Director Transfusion Medicine	Unity Health Toronto	$421,871

Employers with the most directors (2025)

University Of Toronto955 · $166,842 avg York University579 · $167,610 avg Metrolinx371 · $196,636 avg City Of Toronto330 · $197,681 avg Queen's University306 · $150,523 avg McMaster University284 · $167,723 avg Toronto Metropolitan University284 · $159,040 avg University Of Waterloo241 · $136,483 avg Ontario Power Generation220 · $248,781 avg Workplace Safety And Insurance Board212 · $165,505 avg University Of Ottawa195 · $186,743 avg University Of Western Ontario179 · $146,032 avg

Job titles included

Director769Executive Director702Director/Directeur241Director of Finance127Director of Care104Director of Operations88Director of Human Resources82Director, Human Resources79Deputy Director68Director, Finance67

Highest-Paid Directors in Ontario (2025)

Top 25 highest-paid directors (2025)

Employers with the most directors (2025)

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