David R. Beatty, C.M., O.B.E.
Bio
David Beatty is a Professor of Strategic Management. Currently, he serves as a Director of FirstService Corporation, Walter Energy and Canada Steamships Lines. Over his career he has served on over 35 Boards of directors and been Chair of 8 publicly traded companies. He was the founding Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (2003-2008). David served on Peter Drucker’s Foundation Board in the United States for over a decade, the last few years as Vice Chairman and was Chair of Upper Canada College from 1992-97.
Other Info
Honorary Consul General for Papua New Guinea in Canada; Past Chairman, Upper Canada College, Toronto; Past Director of the Art Gallery of Ontario and The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts
Academic Positions
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Present
Conway Director, Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics & Board Effectiveness and Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management
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2002-2007
Director, Institute of Corporate Directors
Non-Academic Positions
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2001-2012
Chairman, Inmet Mining
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2008-2010
Chairman, Western Canadian Coal
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1992-2012
Director, Bank of Montreal; FirstService
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2002-2008
Managing Director, CCGG
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1996-2000
Founding Chairman, Orogen Minerals Ltd.
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1990-2002
Vice Chairman (founding Chairman in Canada), Peter F. Drucker Foundation in the U.S.; Chair in Canada
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1985-1994
President, Weston Foods, a Cdn $2 billion food processing company employing 12,000 people with 40 plants in Canada and the U.S., Weston Foods is part of Canada's 4th largest company, George Weston Limited, of which Mr. Beatty was a Director until his retirement
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1980-1985
President, Gardiner Group Capital, a family holding company with interests in the oil and gas industry, hotels, and fast foods
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1977-1980
Management consultant in Canada and the USA,
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1973-1977
Director of the Central Planning Office and Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister in Papua New Guinea during the transition from colonial status to self government and Independence,
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1970-1973
McKinsey & Co. and Chair of Canada Consulting Group,
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1967-1970
Senior Transport Economist and Assistant Editor, Second Five Year Plan in the Central Planning Office of the Government of Tanzania,
Honors and Awards
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2005
Fellow of the Institute, Institute of Corporate Directors (Canada)
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1994
Officer Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Government
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
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International Corporate Governance Network
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Global Corporate Governance Forum
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European Corporate Governance Institute