Andrew holds an M.B.A. degree in finance from Université Laval, receiving the Hermès Award for career accomplishment from its business school in 2002, and a B.A. in economics from McGill University.
Before joining Spencer Stuart, Andrew was vice president and regional manager of a major publicly traded full-service vehicle leasing company acquired from Avis, with full P&L responsibility for Ontario and Western Canada. Prior to that, he held the position of group head of corporate banking for The Mercantile Bank of Canada, a subsidiary of Citibank, where he led the initiation, structuring and execution of a broad range of financing and merchant banking transactions in Canada and the United States as well as leading the bank's forest products and transportation groups.
Since joining Spencer Stuart in 1989, Andrew MacDougall has conducted numerous CEO, board director and senior management assignments in all major regions of the world. He is also a member of the firm's global Financial Services and Industrial practices.
Andrew has managed the firm’s Toronto and Montreal offices, and has served as an elected member of its worldwide board of directors, and as past chairman of its nominations and personnel committees. He has developed a particular expertise in advising clients on effective CEO succession planning, selection and launch. Andrew co-founded and is co-chairman of the Conference Board of Canada/Spencer Stuart National Awards in Governance program. He is a member of a number of corporate, academic and not-for-profit boards. Andrew speaks French and Spanish.