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Wafic Saïd Chairman |
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Robert Genillard Deputy Chairman |
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Barton Biggs |
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Michael Butt |
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Edward Hyman |
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Daniel Martineau |
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Brian Mulroney |
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The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, P.C., C.C., LL.D.
Since 1993, Brian Mulroney has been Senior Partner of the Montreal law firm of Ogilvy Renault.
Mr Mulroney also serves as a director of Barrick Gold Corporation [Toronto], Archer Daniels Midland Company [Decatur], Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, The Blackstone Group L.P. [New York], Independent News and Media, PLC [Dublin], Quebecor Inc., and Quebecor World Inc. [Montreal].
He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Quebecor World Inc., [ Montreal] and Chairman of Forbes International [ New York] and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold Corporation [ Toronto] and Independent News and Media, PLC [ Dublin].
Mr Mulroney serves as Chairman and Director of Persona Communications, Inc. [ St. John's], Director of Quebecor Media [Montréal] and Said Holdings Limited [ Bermuda], all privately held companies.
He is also a member of the International Advisory Councils of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation [Beijing]; JPMorgan Chase & Co., [New York]; and Lion Capital LLP [London].
Mr Mulroney is also a Trustee of the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation, the International Advisory Council of the École des Hautes études commerciales de Montréal; [Montréal]; The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations [New York].
Before entering politics in 1983, Mr Mulroney practised law in Montreal and served as President of the Iron Ore Company of Canada. In September 1984, Mr Mulroney led the Progressive Conservative party to the largest victory in Canadian history, becoming Canada's eighteenth Prime Minister. He was re-elected with a majority government four years later, thereby becoming the first Canadian Prime Minister in 35 years to win successive majority governments and the first Conservative Prime Minister to do so in 100 years. He resigned in June 1993, having served almost 9 years as Prime Minister.
His government introduced bold new initiatives such as the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Canada-U.S. Acid Rain Treaty. Prime Minister Mulroney's government also introduced a series of privatisations, a low inflation policy, historic tax reform, extensive deregulation and expenditure reduction policies that continue to be the basis of Canada's impressive economic performance today.
Prime Minister Mulroney also served as Co-Chairman of the United Nations Summit on Children and his government played leading roles in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, the creation of Le Sommet de la Francophonie and the Gulf War.
In 2000, the McGill University North American Studies Institute determined that Mr Mulroney had the best economic record of any Prime Minister since World War II. In 2003, the Institute for Research on Public Policy placed Mr Mulroney 2 nd in a ranking of the best prime ministers of the previous 50 years. In 2006, a panel of Canada’s leading environmental groups determined that Mr Mulroney was “The Greenest Prime Minister in history.”
Mr Mulroney has been awarded Canada's highest honour, Companion of the Order of Canada, and has also been made a Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Québec. He has received honorary degrees and awards from universities and governments at home and abroad.