Hal Hannaford
Retired Headmaster, Selwyn House School
B.Comm. (Concordia)
B.Ed. (U of T)
MBA (INSEAD)

Hal Hannaford began his educational career as a student at Lower Canada College in Montréal, and has spent his entire professional life in education. In June, 2020 Hal completed his 31st year as a Headmaster in Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) schools. He studied at Queen’s University (Economics), Concordia University (B. Comm.), University of Toronto (B. Ed.), and The European Institute of Business Administration (M.B.A.).

Hal was Director of Kilcoo Camp from 1982 – 1984, and as a teacher; he has had experience at both an elementary and high school level in Canada (Crescent School); and at university where he was a member of the Faculty of International Business at the American University in Paris. He was the founding Headmaster of Kingsway College School in Toronto in 1989. He joined Royal St. George’s College in 1996 as Headmaster, and remained until December, 2008. In January, 2009 he become Headmaster of Selwyn House School in Montréal. Hal was a founding influence of the CAIS Leadership Institute where he created and taught the Faculty Culture Module for 20 years from 1997 -2017.

He has a keen interest in athletics, public speaking, auctioneering (has raised over $30,000,000 for charitable causes), landscaping, drumming, and has a musical passion for The Blues. Hal and his wife Susan, an award-winning author, live in Montréal and have two children; Alisse, a medical doctor doing her residency at the Hospital of U. Penn, and Reid, a graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and filmmaker in New York.