Goldy Hyder

Goldy Hyder is a seasoned strategic leader with over 25 years’ experience advising business leaders and boards of directors; federal, provincial, and municipal government officials; and a broad spectrum of community stakeholder groups.

Goldy has successfully served on various boards in matters related to complex corporate transactions, policy advocacy, business development and market access in the Indo-Pacific, and crisis communications.

Goldy is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council of Canada (BCC). The BCC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose membership is comprised of more than 170 chief executives and entrepreneurs of Canada’s leading and largest companies. As President and CEO of the Council, Goldy represents Canadian business leaders from every sector and industry both across the country and around the world.

Goldy works directly with the CEOs of Canadian companies, including those serving on corporate boards, to develop and promote sensible public policy solutions in support of economic growth. He led the Council through the COVID-19 pandemic, during which he helped coordinate the Canadian business community’s response to the crisis.

Under his leadership, the Council has worked together to successfully advocate for strengthened public policy in the areas of the energy transition, innovation and industrial policy, indigenous reconciliation, cybersecurity, supply chain resilience within North America, increased economic immigration, and trade diversification in the Indo-Pacific.

On trade diversification specifically, Goldy works closely with other global business associations as well as the network of foreign diplomatic representatives posted in Canada to advance and promote Canada’s commercial and economic interests in key markets. Goldy has also led trade missions and other business delegations internationally.

Prior to this, Goldy was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Canada. Recognized as one of Canada’s leading and largest public affairs and public relations firms, Hill+Knowlton Canada employed over 150 employees in nine cities. In a series of increasingly senior roles in the company, Goldy provided clients with strategic counsel on public policy reform and regulatory approvals for corporate transactions.

In addition to leading the company’s Canadian operations, and serving on Hill+Knowlton’s Global Leadership Team, Goldy personally led multidisciplinary client teams which developed and executed comprehensive communications, government relations, stakeholder engagement, crisis communications and public/media relations strategies.

During his fifteen years at Hill+Knowlton, Goldy was one of the company’s most senior specialists for mergers and acquisitions, advising multiple corporate boards – both foreign and domestic – on how to successfully navigate Canadian regulatory review processes to achieve government approval for M&As and foreign investment transactions.