Gary Kent - Second Vice-President

Member-At-Large (For Municipalities with a Population Over 100,000)

Chief Administrative Officer
Region of Peel
10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton, ON  L6T 4B9
Tel: (905) 791-7800 x 4759
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Gary Kent is the Chief Administrative Officer of Peel Region, Ontario, Canada, which proudly delivers essential services and infrastructure to 1.5 million residents and over 200,000 businesses in the communities of Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga.

Reporting directly to Regional Council, the CAO is the most senior position within Peel Region, overseeing all staff, service delivery and infrastructure investments.

A graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University, he is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CGA), a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a holds the ICD.D designation from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He has also completed the Bloomberg -Harvard Cities Leadership course which brings Mayors and senior staff from across the globe to learn together.

With over 30 years of experience in progressively senior municipal roles, including serving as CFO for both Peel and the City of Mississauga, Gary and his colleagues have had many achievements in the municipal sector and is very present in all discussions during these turbulent times.

Gary was recently appointed second VP for the Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators (CAMA), having served as Treasurer and sits on the Council of the largest global accounting body (ACCA) and is always happy to connect and share on Linkedin.

He is an active community volunteer and has lived with his family in Mississauga all his Canadian life.