Member, LCBO Board, and Chair, Governance and Compensation Committee

Ms. Jean Simpson has had a lifelong interest in mental health, beginning her career as a nurse and moving into management at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.

Ms. Simpson then became Director of Mental Health Programs and Services at the Ministry of Health, returning to the Clarke Institute as Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer and subsequently Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health when it was created in 1998.

Ms. Simpson retired in June, 2003, but continues her work in mental health as Co-Chair of the Human Resources Committee on the Board of the Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses, a not-for-profit organization with a provincial mandate to develop alternative businesses owned and operated by psychiatric survivors and consumers of the mental health system.  As a former COO, she also coaches senior business executives.

Ms. Simpson was appointed to the LCBO Board in November, 2004 and has since served as Chair of the Audit and Governance Review Committee (2005-2007) and Chair of the Governance Committee (2007- ).  She has also served as Chair of the Access Sub-Committee of the Ontario Women’s Health Council and as Chair of Workman Arts.