Directory of honorary doctorates

A member of the Gitxsan First Nation Cindy Blackstock is a Professor at the McGill School of Social Work and Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. She has worked in Indigenous children’s rights for over 30 years and is honored to work with others to promote culturally based equity for First Nations children and their families using a combination of public education, engagement and, more recently, litigation. Although she is probably best known for her wo...
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Professor Catharine Stimpson, born in Bellingham, Washington State, is known in the academic community as a pioneer in women’s and gender studies. She is also one of the founders of feminist criticism and an eloquent author with a contagious desire to learn. She has been invited to speak at many conferences around the world, to discuss her writing and the knowledge she has acquired during her career. Stimpson is university professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science a...
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Mitch Garber C.M., is a Canadian lawyer and former CEO of Optimal Payments/Paysafe (Nasdaq), PartyGaming Plc/PartyBwin (LSE), Caesars Acquisition Company /Playtika Ltd. (Nasdaq). He is the Chairman of Invest in Canada, the Canadian agency responsible for foreign investment in Canada. He is an active investor and co-invests with lead investors including; Apollo, TPG, David Bonderman/Wildcat, and Fosun, and sits on the boards of Rackspace Technology (Apollo), Shutterfly Inc. (Apollo), and Fosun ...
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Through his discoveries, Professor Liotta has helped to transform HIV/AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic infection, allowing patients to live active, near-normal lives.  It is estimated that over 90% of all HIV-infected individuals in the United States take (or have taken) one of the drugs he invented.  His contributions are not restricted to AIDS; over the past 25 years, his brilliant research has led to the discovery and development of novel antiviral, anticancer, and anti-in...
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Born in Haiti, Dany Laferrière spent his childhood with his grand-mother, Da, in Petit‑Goâve. He began his career in journalism by reporting for the weekly Le Petit Samedi soir and for Radio Haïti Inter. In 1976, following the assassination of his friend and fellow journalist Gasner Raymond, he fled the Duvalier dictatorship and settled in Quebec. After taking several different jobs in Montreal, he decided to try his hand at writing. In 1985, he published his first novel, How to Make Love to a ...
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Lakhdar Brahimi has worked to resolve conflict and build peace in some of the most troubled regions in the world. Since 2004, he has been Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. In 1956, two years after Algeria’s war of independence broke out, Lakhdar Brahimi left his studies in Paris to join his country’s liberation struggle. At the age of 22 he represented the National Liberation Front in Southeast Asia, a position he held for five years. Following Algerian independen...
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Mary Anne White is a scientist, science promoter and writer who has enjoyed a 30-year career as a professor of chemistry and physics. She is currently the Harry Shirreff Professor of Chemical Research (Emerita) at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Her area of research is energetics and the thermal properties of materials, and applications of her research have led to new developments in energy scavenging and storage, along with materials that change colour with temperature for erasable printing. ...
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Throughout his career, David Ross has successfully blended engineering and business to epitomize the entrepreneurial spirit. Under his leadership, Ross Video has become a global leader, closing the gap between the fields of technology and innovation and the world of arts, sports and entertainment. David Ross’ long history of computer programming innovation dates back to his childhood; in 1975, at the age of nine, he won three major engineering competitions at the national level with projects i...
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Paul Nurse is an English geneticist and cell biologist who has worked on how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled and how cell shape and cell dimensions are determined. His genetic research eventually identified a gene that controls the progress of the cell cycle, culminating in the discovery, with his colleagues Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt, of two protein molecules that control cell division, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001, the epitome of scie...
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