Virginia West has been a former Deputy Minister for the Province of Ontario, serving in five successive portfolios – Solicitor General; Public Safety and Security; Environment; Labour; and Natural Resources. She has also held leadership positions at the municipal level – as Commissioner of City Property for the City of Toronto, Chief Administrative Officer for the Borough of East York, and the first Commissioner of Urban Planning and Development for the amalgamated City of Toronto.
Virginia is a lawyer by profession and holds an MBA from the University of Toronto. She has served on many community Boards and Crown Agencies.
Virginia has been a member of the Canadian Red Cross Board of Directors since 2017. She previously served at the Chair of the Quality Committee from 2020 to 2023 and is currently Member of the Governance Committee and the Human Resource Committee.
She is based in Toronto, Ontario.