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Johnston, David Lloyd
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David Lloyd Johnston is an academic, writer and former Governor General of Canada who served as the president of the University of Waterloo from 1999 to 2010. Born June 28, 1941 in Sudbury, Ontario, Johnston completed his studies at Harvard (A.B. 1963), Cambridge (LL.B. 1965) and Queen's (LL.B. 1966).
Known for work related securities regulation, corporation law and communications law, Johnston taught law at Queen's University (1966), and the University of Toronto (1968), and was the University of Western Ontario's Dean of Law (1974 to 1979). In 1979 he was named Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University and in July 1994, after stepping down as Principal, returned to McGill's Faculty of Law as a full-time Professor. Johnston took office as Waterloo's fifth president on June 1, 1999. A member of the Order of Canada, Johnston holds honorary doctorates Among the many honours accorded Professor Johnston are honorary doctorates from higher education institutions across the country.
In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous books, Johnston has played active roles in a variety of associations and organizations in educational and governmental settings. He was President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Conférence des Recteurs et des Principaux des Universités du Québec, the founding Chair of the National Roundtable on Environment and the Economy and chaired Harvard University's Board of Overseers. For the federal government, he has chaired the Information Highway Advisory Council, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Smart Communities, the Advisory Council on Online Learning, the Committee on Canadian Information Systems for the Environment, and the National Broadband Task Force. He has also chaired the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and The Neuroscience National Centre of Excellence. Professor Johnston has served on many other provincial and federal task forces and committees and is on the boards of a number of companies including CGI Group, Masco Corp., Fairfax Financial Holdings, ARISE Technologies Inc., and is a founding trustee of the MasterCard Foundation.
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Created March 2022 by DR.
Expanded April 2024 by DR.
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- Professor David Johnston - President 1999-2010 - Office of the President
- David Johnston - Wikipedia