Yale Loh
Treasurer
Yale is responsible for overseeing treasury and strategic financial planning and analysis functions for all UBC campuses and locations. This includes responsibility for cash and debt management and business contract management, as well as the strategic direction and leadership support of financial liquidity, capital project financial analysis, corporate borrowing, cash management, financial projects management, tax, leases, payment card industry compliance, and revenue accounting.
Yale also oversees UBC’s $2.8 billion endowment, and led the development of UBC’s responsible investing framework, which includes a commitment to divest of fossil fuel investments and achieve a 45% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, together with the publication of UBC’s first Task Force for Climate Related Financial Disclosure report.
Yale has over 30 years of capital markets and corporate experience. He joined UBC from Aritzia, where he served as Treasurer and previously held progressively senior roles with Finning International, Capital Power Corporation, and BC Hydro.
Yale is an active member of the community and currently is a member of the Blueshore Financial Board of Directors. He previously was a member of the Finance Committee at West Point Grey academy, on the Board at Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver, a member of the United Way of Lower Mainland cabinet, and a coach with various community youth sports teams.
Yale is a commerce graduate from UBC and earned his Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Yale also holds his Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Professional Accountant designations.
Contact information
Finance Leadership Office
Koerner Library 6th Floor
1958 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Phone: 604 827 2090
Email: Yale.Loh@ubc.ca
Leadership vision
“I am a leader of a high-performing and accountable team that is driven by shared values and success, open dialogue, transparency, and orientation towards results. There are clear personal development and succession plans in place with frameworks, processes and workflows that are best practice and will stand the test of time.”
Yale Loh
Treasurer
Updates related to Treasury
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UBC Continues Commitment to Mitigating Climate Change, Signs Principles for Responsible Investment
The university is pleased to share that UBC Investment Management Trust (IMANT) has signed the internationally-developed Principles for Responsible Investment on behalf of UBC and the UBC Staff Pension Plan.
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EXPENSES RELATING TO WORKING FROM HOME – QUESTIONS ABOUT THE T2200 TAX FORM
Many members of the UBC faculty and staff community have moved to working-from-home scenarios as a result of COVID-19 measures, and the university’s finance teams have received some questions about whether UBC will be issuing T2200 tax forms for the…
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Legal Opinion Confirms the Way Forward to Divestment
On Dec. 5, 2019, the Board of Governors formally directed VP Finance and UBC Counsel to lay out a pathway to full divestment of the university’s main endowment. Now the university has received a legal opinion which further confirms the…