As president and chief executive officer of World Vision Canada, Dave Toycen heads the country’s largest humanitarian relief and development agency.

Toycen has led the agency into significant advocacy and public policy work, with an emphasis on issues that affect children. He has spoken before the World Bank, and has met with heads of state, key global executives and development leaders to discuss the well-being of the world’s children.

Toycen’s career with World Vision internationally has spanned more than 35 years. His book, The Power of Generosity (HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, 2004), draws from his experiences and calls readers to become more engaged in the world and to develop a more generous way of life.

A Canadian citizen, Toycen holds degrees in philosophy and divinity and has received three honorary doctorates—from Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California and Wycliffe College in Toronto. He is a member of the Order of Ontario.