Sandy Houston
Sandy Houston is the President of the Metcalf Foundation. Over the last ten years, Sandy has steered the development of Metcalf into a leading private foundation engaged in helping Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy and creative society. Prior to joining Metcalf, Sandy worked as a litigation lawyer before becoming a founding partner in Stitt Feld Handy Houston, Canada's first law firm to focus predominately on alternative dispute resolution.
Much of his current work is focused on creating opportunities for innovation and collaboration and in advancing new thinking and policy approaches. Sandy has also been instrumental in the establishment of a number of Canadian not-for-profits. He was the founding chair of the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, an arms-length, public foundation created by the Government of Ontario to support the environmental and agricultural integrity of province's new Greenbelt. He is also a member of the board of the Tides Canada Foundation, the Philanthropic Foundations Canada, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and serves as advisor to a number of charitable organizations, including CivicAction, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, Imagine Canada, the Ontario Not-for-Profit Network, the Literary Review of Canada and The Walrus.
