president founder of Trader Classified Media
McCall MacBain is a Rhodes Scholar and received an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School (1984), an Master of Arts in Law from Oxford University and an Honours Bachelor in Economics from McGill University (1980) as well as an hLD from Dalhousie University in Canada (2010). He was president of the McGill Students" Society, as well as valedictorian. While at Oxford, he was co-captain of the university ice hockey team
Also went to school with Brian Smith.
Starting with his purchase of three small publications in Montreal in 1987 when he was 29 years old, he developed the classified business to include 500 print titles and 57 internet sites in over 20 countries, including in Argentina, Australia, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Russia and Spain. After its IPO in 2000, Trader Classified Media was publicly traded on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation and the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange. In 2006, McCall MacBain sold Trader Classified Media and set up the McCall MacBain Foundation.
Prior to founding Trader Classified Media, he worked from 1984-1987 as director of marketing at Power Financial.
McCall MacBain currently devotes his time to non-profit activities. Since its formation in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007, the McCall MacBain Foundation has made tens of millions of dollars of grants to fund projects relating to health, education and the environment in Canada, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in the West African country of Liberia.
In addition to his role as a director of the foundation, he is a trustee of the Rhodes Trust (Oxford) which was established in the early 1900s to fund and oversee the Rhodes Scholarships worldwide and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (Cape Town). McCall MacBain, a Canadian Rhodes Scholar in 1980, has been a trustee of the Rhodes Trust since June 2010, and chaired the 110th anniversary celebrations for the Rhodes Scholarships.
In September 2013, during the Rhodes 110th anniversary celebrations, he donated $120 million to Rhodes Scholarships, to help fund the current scholarships and to aid in the expansion of the program to Brazil, China, Japan and Russia.
He was honored in 2014 as a Fellow of the Chancellor"s Court of Benefactors at Oxford University, at Rhodes House where his portrait hangs and a room bears his name. The McCall MacBain Graduate Centre at Wadham College, Oxford, was endowed by him.
Prior to founding the McCall MacBain Foundation, he studied at Harvard and Oxford University, as well as developing an entrepreneurial career as the founder of Trader Classified Media. From 1987 to 2006, McCall MacBain was the founder, president and Chief Executive Officer of Trader Classified Media, the world"s leading classified advertising company. McCall MacBain is also a founder and chairman of the European Climate Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting energy policies to reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions and to help Europe play a stronger role in mitigating climate change. He was named Second Century Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships in honor of this transforming gift.
