April 21, 2015 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of Lawson Hunter to the Institute’s National Council, an esteemed group of Canadians who advise the Institute’s research program.
“Lawson has extraordinary breadth and depth on regulatory and competition policy,” said Robson. “The Institute has benefitted from his advice on many occasions in the past, and we look forward to working with him in this new role.”
Mr. Hunter is Canada’s former Assistant Deputy Minister of the Bureau of Competition Policy, and was primarily responsible for the drafting of the federal Competition Act. From 1993 to 2003, he was a partner of Stikeman Elliott and head of the firm’s Competition and Foreign Investment Group. From 2003 to 2008, he served as executive vice-president and chief corporate officer of Bell Canada and BCE Inc.. In September 2008, he rejoined the Ottawa office of Stikeman Elliott as counsel. From April 2010 – May 2012, Mr. Hunter assumed the role of head of the Competition and Foreign Investment Group and recently returned to his role as counsel.
Mr. Hunter is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute and sits on its Competition Policy Council. He recently co-authored, “Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay.”
Mr. Hunter was educated at Harvard (LL.M. 1971), University of New Brunswick (LL.B. 1970, B.Sc. 1967). He is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors and was recently granted an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree (L.L.D.) from the University of New Brunswick.
For more information please contact: James Fleming of the C.D. Howe Institute at 416-865-1904; email:jfleming@cdhowe.org.
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