Malcolm Burrows is a philanthropic advisor and foundation executive with 35+ years of experience who is based in Toronto, Canada.

He is founder and Executive Director of Aqueduct Foundation, a public foundation dedicated to facilitating personal philanthropy. Aqueduct carries out its charitable purposes through donor advised and other chartable funds. Aqueduct Foundation is the 13th largest foundation in Canada by assets and has deployed more than $1 billion in grants and charitable programs since inception in 2006. Malcolm lives in Toronto, Canada.

He is Head, Philanthropic Advisory Services at Scotia Wealth Management and (until 2026) its 110-year-old private foundation services practice.  After a start in the arts and journalism, Malcolm worked for three major Toronto charities from 1990 to 2004: University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, and SickKids Foundation.

Malcolm is an active educator, writer, coach, and volunteer in the Canadian charitable sector. He writes regularly to think out loud, share ideas and engage in constructive debate. He was CAGP’s Educational Course Director and primary instructor from 2000 to 2011. He was a regular columnist for the defunct publication Gift Planning in Canada from 1999 to 2006. Many articles on this website were originally published on Canada’s top estates blog, All About Estates.

Malcolm is a public policy wonk and active volunteer in the charitable sector. Through the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP), he has contributed to the development of new charitable tax incentives, including the elimination of capital gains on gifts of public securities and the 2016 “estate donation” rules.  His proposal for gifts of private securities and taxable real estate published by C.D. Howe Institute was included in the 2015 Federal Budget. He was CAGP’s course director from 1999 to 2011. He is a founding co-chair of CAGP’s Working Group on Donor Advised Funds and a past-Chair of CAGP’s Government Relations Committee.

He loves governance and board work in the NFP sector. Currently, he is a director of The Muttart Foundation (Edmonton), the Waugh Family Foundation, the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation and a member of the Indigenous and Canadian Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Previously, he served on the board of Canada Helps, CRA’s Charities Directorate Technical Issues Working Group, CAGP’s National Board and Toronto Chapter, was Co-Editor of The Philanthropist, and a board member of both the Canadian and Spanish sections of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He was named a Friend of the CAGP in 2003.