Allie Harris

Senior Director, Data Governance and Analytics Bank of Montreal

Allie (Grassie) Harris joined Bank of Montreal’s Data Governance & Analytics team as the Senior Director, Data Governance – Canadian P&C, Wealth, and Capital Markets. Allie and her team support Data Governance communities in Canada.

Allie has been involved in data in various forms over the course of her career, most recently as the Senior Director with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in Enterprise Process Management and Analytics area, a new department providing metrics and measurement of processes in an end-to-end fashion. Previous roles within CIBC include data management, governance and analytics for the Wholesale Banking area.

Allie also served as the liaison for the bank’s data communication and outreach strategy, which includes internal stakeholder engagement and marketing as well as participation in national and international financial data and trade associations. She has worked closely with the Enterprise Data Management Council, a financial industry-focused semantics and data organization. She sits on the International Standards Organization Technical Committee 68, Working Group 6 (LEI), co-convenes the ISO TC68 Standards Advisory Group, and sits on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Steering Committee for Legal Entity Identification. She was part of the industry delegation to the Financial Stability Board meeting on LEI in Basel in 2011, where agreement was reached on the creation of a Global LEI standard. Allie has been involved in standards for many years, from health informatics, semantics and messaging, as Secretariat for HL7 Canada, and she is the Vice-President of the Information Resource Management Association of Canada.

Allie has been published or interviewed in various standards and informatics journals (Canadian EMR, HL7 Canada, SIMS Podcast, Canadian Healthcare Technology, Inside Reference Data), has been on a committees and boards (IHE Canada Board, Canada Health Infoway Steering Committee, HL7’s RIM-Based Application Architecture, Marketing, Membership, Publishing, Data4Good), and has a fondness for presenting (HL7 Canada Conferences, IHE Canada, HL7 International, MDM Conference, FIMA, Toronto CDO conference).