John H. McCall MacBain (born in 1958) is a Swiss-based, Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm. Prior to establishing the McCall MacBain Foundation, in the late 1980s he bought Auto Hebdo magazine in Montréal, Canada and bought and consolidated several other existing Auto Traders and Buy and Sell classified papers to form Trader Classified Media with operations in 23 countries. Education and Personal Life McCall MacBain received an MBA from Harvard Business School (1984), an MA in Law (Jurisprudence) from the University of Oxford (1982) as a Rhodes Scholar and an Honours BA in Economics from McGill University (1980). He holds honorary degrees from Dalhousie University, the University of Ottawa, Brock University, McGill University and Monash University. He served as President of the Students' Society of McGill University, as well as valedictorian. While at Oxford, he was co-captain of the university's ice hockey team. McCall MacBain has five children and two grandchildren. He is married to Marcy McCall MacBain, an academic at the University of Oxford in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He is also an avid skier, marathon runner, ice hockey player and cyclist as well as a commercial land and sea pilot. Career He worked from 1984 to 1987 as director of marketing at Power Financial Corporation. From 1987 to 2006, McCall MacBain was the founder, President and CEO of Trader Classified Media, the world's leading classified advertising company. Starting with his purchase of three small publications in Montréal in 1987, when he was 29 years old, he developed the classified business to include 500 print titles and 57 internet sites in over 23 countries, including in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Spain and the United States. After its IPO in 2000, Trader Classified Media was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange. In 2006, McCall MacBain sold the company and set up the McCall MacBain Foundation. He is now Chancellor of McGill University for a three-year term from 2021 to 2024 and he is a member of The Giving Pledge. Philanthropy Since its formation in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007, the McCall MacBain Foundation has made approximately $500 million of grants to fund projects relating to education and scholarships, health and climate change, and the environment. In addition to his role as a director and Chair of