Directory of honorary doctorates

Dr. Molly Shoichet is a professor at the University of Toronto, where she is one of less than 2% of the faculty at the institution to hold the title University Professor. She is also Michael E. Charles Professor of Chemical Engineering at UofT, in a department where she serves as associate chair, graduate studies, as well. In 2018, she served as Ontario’s first (and only) chief scientist, working to enhance the culture of science. Shoichet has published over 650 papers, patents and abstr...
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Paul C. Genest has been senior vice-president of Power Corporation since 2016. From 2016 until 2020, he was senior vice-president of Power Financial. His background includes government, academia and business. He served in a number of portfolios as a deputy minister in the Ontario government, including intergovernmental affairs and francophone affairs, and as deputy minister responsible for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games held in Toronto in 2015. He served in the federal go...
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Tina Boileau is the proud mother of two. Her son Jonathan, also known in the Ottawa region as the “butterfly child, was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) and her daughter Noémy is a carrier of the gene. Since 2015, she has served as president of the Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of Canada (DEBRA Canada), while working full time for the federal government. Tina was first introduced to EB when Jonathan was born 19 years ago. She quickly became an...
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Born on March 2, 1951, the honourable Louise Charron received her primary and secondary education in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. She is married to William Blake and has one child, Gabriel Poliquin, and two step-sons, Michael and Steven Blake. She received a B.A. from Carleton University in 1972 and an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa in 1975. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1977, she practised law with the firm of Lalonde & Chartrand from 1977 to 1980, mostly in civil and criminal litigation....
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Kevin is N’lakapamux from the Lytton First Nation in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia. He is a graduate of Studio 58, Langara College’s professional theatre training program and Full Circle: First Nations Performance’s ensemble training program. He is an actor, playwright, director and the founding artistic director of Savage Society, a charity dedicated to producing Indigenous stories. In 2017, Kevin was named the first artistic director of Indigenous theatre at the National Arts Centre o...
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He and his spouse, Lynne Routhier, had four children, including two who died of lactic acidosis, a hereditary disease common in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, but rare elsewhere around the world. Laurie passed away in 1997 at the age of four and Raphaël passed away in 2000 at 20 months. The year Raphaël was born, 1998, 10 other children in the region were born with lactic acidosis. Pierre told himself that he couldn’t let lactic acidosis continue to wreak its devastation. He used all his ...
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Doris Peltier is Anishinaabe from Wikwemikoong, a First Nations community located on the unceded territory of the Odawa, Ojibway and Pottawatami peoples, on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island. She is currently community engagement coordinator with the Feast Centre for Indigenous STBBI Research, a partnership between McMaster University and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. Doris is currently completing Visioning Health II, a national study by and for HIV-positive Indigenous women in Canada. ...
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On October 1, 2017, Dr. Gilles G. Patry was appointed executive director of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities.  With a long, distinguished career as a consultant, researcher and university administrator, he brings to the U15 a wealth of experience from the private, public and academic sectors. Dr. Patry holds a BASc and an MASc in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa and a PhD from the University of California Davis in environmental engineering. He was an environm...
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Wes Hall is an established innovator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. As executive chairman and founder of Kingsdale Advisors, he has been repeatedly named one of Canada’s most powerful people, including  by the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, Toronto Life and Maclean’s. He is also the owner of QM Environmental, a leading environmental and industrial services provider; Titan Supply, a top manufacturer and distributor of rigging and wear products serving industries in the oil and gas, ...
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Allen Eaves, OBC MD PhD FRCPC, is president and CEO of STEMCELL Technologies Inc. With an average annual growth rate of 20% over the last 28 years, and 97% of its sales outside of Canada, STEMCELL is Canada’s largest biotech company. It has over 1,500 employees and a global network of sales offices and distribution centres serving thousands of customers. Dr. Eaves was born in Ottawa (1941) and moved to Nova Scotia at age seven. He attended Acadia University (BSc in biology and mathematics, 196...
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