Malcolm Burrows is a philanthropic advisor and gift planner with 32 years of experience. He is Head, Philanthropic Advisory Services at Scotia Wealth Management. He founded and leads Aqueduct Foundation, a public foundation with donor advised funds. Aqueduct Foundation is the 13th largest foundation in Canada by assets and has granted $670 million to registered charities since inception in 2006.

He also leads Scotia Wealth Management’s 100-year-old private foundation services practice.  He worked for three major Toronto charities from 1990 to 2004 and started his career in the arts. Malcolm is an active educator, writer, and volunteer in the charitable sector.

Through the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, he has contributed to the development of new charitable tax incentives, including the elimination of capital gains on gifts of public securities and the “estate donation” rules.  His proposal for gifts of private securities and taxable real estate published by C.D. Howe Institute was included in the 2015 Federal Budget. He was CAGP’s course director from 1999 to 2011.

In his volunteer life, he is a director of the Muttart Foundation and Canada Helps, and a member of the Indigenous and Canadian Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Previously, he served on CRA’s Charities Directorate Technical Issues Working Group, was Co-Editor of The Philanthropist, and a board member of both the Canadian and Spanish sections of Doctors Without Borders.