February 17, 2022 – William Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Edward J. Waitzer as a Senior Fellow.
“Ed has extensive experience across law, business and public policy, and regularly sheds new light on tough problems,” said Robson. “The C.D. Howe Institute team is delighted to continue working with him.”
Mr. Waitzer was Chair of Stikeman Elliott LLP from 1999 to 2006 and was a Senior Partner until his retirement in 2021. He remains affiliated with the firm and his practice continues to focus on complex business transactions as well as a range of public policy and governance matters.
He is a Professor Emeritus and was the Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance and Director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall and the Schulich School of Business at York University from 2008 until 2020.
He also previously served (1993-1996) as Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission and (until 1981) as Vice-President of The Toronto Stock Exchange.
Mr. Waitzer has written and spoken extensively on a variety of legal and public policy issues and serves or has served as director of a number of corporations, foundations, community organizations, editorial boards and advisory groups.
A Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), he was an inaugural fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. Additionally, he was the recipient of the 2018 Corporate Knights Award of Distinction.
Mr. Waitzer earned his LL.B. (1976) and LL.M. (1981) from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
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