in 2015 Early in his career, Wiseman was an officer with Harrowston, a publicly traded Canadian merchant bank and a lawyer with
Sullivan & Cromwell, practising in New York and Paris. He also was a law clerk to Justice
Beverley McLachlin at the
Supreme Court of Canada. Wiseman was responsible for the private equity fund and co-investment program at the
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Wiseman then joined the
Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) as a Senior VP in 2005. Wiseman became the President and CEO of CPPIB in 2012. In 2014, Wiseman co-founded the
Century Initiative with
Dominic Barton. It is a charity focused on increasing
Canada's population to 100 million by 2100. In 2016, as a member of
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau's Advisory Council on Economic Growth, both Wiseman and Dominic Barton advocated for increasing immigration targets to 450,000 a year, with a focus on top business talent and international students, in order to "raise the living standards for all Canadians." Wiseman and the council argued that without significant immigration changes Canada would fall outside the top 45 nations in population by 2100 and would become "increasingly irrelevant over time." In 2016, Canada was ranked 38th by population, lower than countries such as Thailand, Mexico, and Uganda. From 2016 to 2019, Wiseman was a Senior Managing Director at
BlackRock, Global Head of Active Equities, Chairman of its alternatives business, and Chairman of BlackRock's Global Investment Committee. He was also on BlackRock's Global Executive Committee. On December 5, 2019, Wiseman was fired from his position at BlackRock following a failure to report a consensual relationship with a subordinate employee under his reporting line. in violation of the company's relationship at work policy. Wiseman stated in an internal memo "I engaged in a consensual relationship with one of our colleagues without reporting it. I regret my mistake and I accept responsibility for my actions." Wiseman is the co-founder and former chairman of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization that encourages longer-term approaches in business and investing, which was set up by
BlackRock, CPPIB,
Dow,
McKinsey & Company and
Tata in 2016. In June 2020, Wiseman was named the new chair of the
Alberta Investment Management Corporation. In a
BNN Bloomberg interview, Wiseman advocated for immigration levels to be increased to 500,000 in order to rehabilitate Canada after the
COVID-19 pandemic. "One of the things we do very well in this country, is bring and integrate new people," he claimed. He stepped down from AIMCo in 2023. During his time there, Wiseman donated his salary to the
United Way of Alberta. == Diplomatic career ==