Laurent Ferreira
President and Chief Executive Officer
Professional background
Laurent Ferreira started his career at Bankers Trust, where he worked for two years. He then joined National Bank in 1998. Over the years, he held several senior management positions, including Senior Manager, then Executive Vice-President and Managing Director of Derivatives and Equities within the Financial Markets group. From 2018 to 2021, he was Executive Vice-President and Co-Head, Financial Markets.
He currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Groupe CH and the Business Council of Canada. He also served on the Board of Directors of Hydro-Québec for several years. Laurent Ferreira is actively involved in the community and supports various causes. He has notably co-chaired fundraising campaigns for Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, the Montreal Women’s Y Foundation, and the Centraide United Way Campaign for Greater Montreal. He currently co-chairs the Grow Beyond Campaign for the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation.
Laurent Ferreira has a Master's degree in Finance from HEC Montréal and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Université du Québec à Montréal.
The company
With $577 billion in assets as of October 31, 2025, the National Bank of Canada (the “Bank”) is one of Canada’s six systemically important banks. The Bank has more than 35,000 employees in knowledge-intensive roles and operates in three business lines in Canada: Personal & Commercial, Wealth Management, and Capital Markets. A fourth business line, U.S. and International Specialty Finance, complements the growth of its domestic operations. Its securities are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: NA).
Expenses related to this virtual initiative are minimal. Nearly all revenues generated are donated to the IRCM Foundation, whose mission is to support basic and clinical research at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM).
Researchers at the IRCM, grouped around 4 major themes, are working to deepen our knowledge of almost all the major diseases of our time: cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, genetic or inflammatory diseases, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, to name but a few. Physicians at the IRCM Clinic care for patients living with complex or rare diseases that require ultra-specialized follow-up.
