Leonard Brooks

Bio

Professor Brooks is the Executive Director of the Rotman School’s Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics & Board Effectiveness, and Director of the University’s Professional Accounting Centre, Master of Forensic  Accounting Program, and its Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting Program.  He has authored or co-authored/edited several books including Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives & Accountants, 8e (2018); Ethics & Governance: Developing and Maintaining an Ethical Corporate Culture, 4e (2012); and Principles of Stakeholder Management (1999). Professor Brooks is a former Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy, and was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Business Ethics for fourteen years.  He is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, and the Journal of Forensic & investigative Accounting, and is a reviewer for several other journals. He is a Faculty Associate of the University’s Centre for Ethics and member of its Centre for Bioethics.  His research interests include governance, business and professional ethics, risk management, ethical decision making, conflicts of interest, and developing and maintaining an ethical corporate culture.  He received the 2000 Ethics in Action Award – Ongoing Social Responsibility – Individual in recognition of his leadership in the field of corporate social responsibility.   

Academic Positions

1987-Present  Professor of Business Ethics and Accounting; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

1996-Present  Executive Director; The Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics, Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

2016-Present  Director; Master of Forensic Accounting (MFAcc), University of Toronto Mississauga (previously (DIFA) from 2001)

2014-Present  Director, Professional Accounting Centre; University of Toronto MIssissauga

2001-Present  Director, Diploma in Investigative & Forensic Accounting (DIFA); University of Toronto Mississauga

1993-2016  Director; Master of Management & Professional Accounting Program (MMPA), University of Toronto Mississauga

1980-1988  Associate Dean; Social SciencesSocial Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga

1982-1988  Vice-Principal; Administration, University of Toronto Mississauga

Honors and Awards

2011  2011 George Baxter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Canadian Academic Accounting Association; Canadian Academic Accounting Association

2000  Ethics in Action Award: Ongoing Social Responsibility - Individual

1991  Peel Regional Police Citation

1989  Citation for Outstanding Service; The Canadian Academic Accounting Association

1982  Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (FCA)