Dennis Blatchford

Trustee, BC Municipal Pension Plan

Dennis Blatchford is the Pensions& Benefits Advocate for the Health Sciences Association of BC; a position he has held since October 2008. Prior to moving to the Advocate position, Dennis worked as the Executive/Human Resources Coordinator for HSABC for over 10 years. Dennis came to HSABC in 1997 from the BC Federation of Labour where he was the Director of Community and Social Action Programs. Dennis joined the BC FED in the early 1990's after many years of being active in the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Dennis first became involved with pensions in 1998 when he became a trustee on the Canadian Blood Services DB pension plan during the difficult transition from the Canadian Red Cross following the tainted blood scandal. In 1999, Dennis was appointed to coordinate HSABC's response to changes to the BC Public Sector Pensions Plan Act and played a key role in negotiating the joint trust agreement for the Municipal Pension Plan. When the new jointly-trusted Municipal Pension Plan came into effect in April 2001, Dennis was appointed HSABC's trustee to the MPP; a position he holds today. Dennis has served many years on the MPP Governance Committee and is the current Chair.