| May 14, 1999
C.D. Howe Chief to Head Rotman School's Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics
TORONTO - Effective September 1999, C.D. Howe Institute President and CEO Thomas Kierans joins the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management as head of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and holder of the Geoffrey R. Conway Chair in business ethics. Kierans will be succeeded in his role at the C.D. Howe Institute by Jack Mintz, Arthur Andersen Professor of Taxation at the Rotman School.
"Tom Kierans is joining the Rotman School at one of the most exciting times in our history," says dean Roger Martin. "With his outstanding record of leadership in both the corporate and university sectors, Tom will play a pivotal role in our plan to become one of the top ten business schools in the world. All of us at the Rotman School are delighted to welcome Tom to the U of T community."
Martin thanks Rotman professor of business ethics and accounting Len Brooks for stepping in to provide interim leadership to the Clarkson Centre following the death of former director and Rotman School dean Max Clarkson in June 1998. "Professor Brooks has provided exemplary leadership to the Clarkson Centre during a time of change and transition, and we are grateful to him for taking on temporary directorship of the Centre in addition to his demanding role as head of the Masters in Management and Professional Accounting program."
Thomas Kierans has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the C.D. Howe Institute since 1989. With a B.A. from McGill University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Kierans was President and Director of McLeod Young Weir Limited (later ScotiaMcLeod), Senior Vice President of Pitfield Mackay Ross, and Vice President and Director of Nesbitt Thomson and Company Limited. He has held posts as Adjunct Professor at Queen's University's School of Policy Studies and served as a member of the Business Council on National Issues at the York University Faculty of Administrative Studies, as well as chairing many government and non-profit bodies, among them United Way-Areawide of Greater Toronto, the Energy Options Advisory Committee, the Ontario Economic Council, and the Royal Ontario Museum. He was also among the first to be inducted into the Institute of Corporate Directors
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