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Copyright 2004 World Vision Inc. |  | Dave Toycen is president and chief executive officer of World Vision Canada. Under Toycen’s leadership, World Vision Canada has worked for long-term structural change in areas such as child military recruitment, child victims of land mines and discrimination against girls.
Prior to his appointment as president in 1996, he served as World Vision Canada’s executive vice president and as vice president of donor development. In his years as a leader with World Vision Canada, the agency’s annual income has more than tripled to $144 million (Canadian), making World Vision the country’s largest humanitarian relief and development agency. The number of children sponsored by Canadians in those years has doubled to more than 250,000. Toycen’s career with World Vision internationally has spanned 26 years. Today he is World Vision Canada’s chief spokesperson to the media.
Toycen holds a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Lawrence University in Wisconsin and a master of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in California.
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