Edward Waitzer

Edward Waitzer was chair of Stikeman Elliott LLP from 1999 to 2006 and a senior partner until his retirement in 2021. He is also professor emeritus, held the Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance, and was director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University from 2008 until 2020. He served as chair of the Ontario Securities Commission and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and as a vice-president of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Edward 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. He is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute and was a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and an inaugural fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel.