David Beatty

Professor David R. Beatty C.M., O.B.E., F.ICD, CFA spent a decade managing one of North America’s largest food companies. Over his career he has served on 39 different boards of directors in Canada, America, Mexico, Australia and England and been chairman of 9 public companies.

He was the founding Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (2003-2008), an organization that represents 50 institutional investors with ~C$3 trillion of assets under management.

David is a Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management where he teaches corporate strategy and corporate governance.

He is the creator of the Directors Education Program (DEP) and remains curriculum overseer. The DEP has trained over 5,000 Canadians in a rigorous 12 day course.

Degrees:

• MA in Economics, Cambridge University
• BA in Political Science & Economics, University of Toronto

Academic Positions

• Present  Conway Director, Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics & Board Effectiveness and Professor of Strategic Management; Rotman School of Management
• 2002-2007  Director; Institute of Corporate Directors

Honors and Awards

• 1994  Officer Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; Government
• 2005  Fellow of the Institute; Institute of Corporate Directors (Canada)

Articles

• The increase in ransomware attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a new internet
  Michael Parent, Simon Fraser University and David R. Beatty, University of Toronto
  2021