Financial industry veteran Marianne Harris has received a career achievement award from the Jay and Barbara Hennick Centre for Business and Law at York University.

Harris was presented with the Hennick Medal for Career Achievement, which recognizes business leaders who have earned international recognition in the business and legal communities.

The award recognizes her nearly 30-year career in the financial industry, most recently as managing director at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Canada and president, corporate and investment banking for Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. Prior to that, she was head of the financial institutions group at RBC Capital Markets.

Harris is currently chairwoman of the board of directors of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and she’s on the boards of Sun Life Financial Inc., Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, and Agrium Inc. She is also a director and chair of the investment committee for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation Board, a director of the dean’s advisory council at the Schulich School of Business, and sits on the advisory council for the Hennick Centre for Business and Law.

“In a long and extraordinarily successful career in corporate and investment banking, Marianne Harris has demonstrated that she is a powerful leader who inspires respect and trust,” said Ed Waitzer, Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney chair in corporate governance at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business, and director of the Hennick Centre. “It is a great honour to present the Hennick Medal to Marianne in recognition of her impressive contributions to business and law.”