District Governor Official Visit

Jim Louttit is a member of the Toronto Sunrise Rotary Club and the Chairman and President to the Rotarian Action Group for Microfinance and Community Development.

Jim became a Rotarian in early 2005 as a founding member and Second Vice-President of the Rotary Club of Lima Sunrise in District 4450.  He left Peru in 2007 to return to Canada and joined Toronto Sunrise in District 7070.  He is a Past President of the Club.

Jim has been active at the District level serving as Chair of the Microfinance Committee and member of the Long Range Planning Committee.  He is also served as President of the Toronto International Microfinance Summit.
  
Jim started his own microfinance consulting business after retiring from the Bank of Nova Scotia where he was the Vice-President and Deputy Head for Latin America in their International Banking Division.  Prior to this role, he was the Bank's Country Head in Peru for four years and also worked in El Salvador heading the Bank's Retail Banking Division.

Education for Jim includes the Professional Banking Program and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers.  He majored in Marketing while attending Fanshawe College and while at Queen's University completed the Executive Program and Sales Management Program.  He also attended Dalhousie University partially completing his MBA studies.

Jim has also been active in several other organizations serving as Vice-President of the Peruvian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of The Hearing Foundation of Canada