Professor David Beatty

One of the world’s most experienced corporate directors and educators, David has served as a Director on 40 boards in Canada, America, Mexico, Australia and England and been chairman of 9 public and 2 private companies. He was the founding Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (2003-2007), an organization that today represents 50 institutional investors with ~$3 trillion of assets under management (AUM).

In 2004, he helped create and still helps oversee the Canadian Directors’ Education Program with the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), a rigorous 12-day course that has now graduated over 8,000 senior Canadian entrepreneurs, directors and family office members.

Overseas he has taught In dozens of other jurisdictions. For example, From 2010 until 2017 he and the BDI created and led the Directors Education Program for Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest company headquartered in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 

• In 1994 he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his services to Papua New Guinea.
• In 2012 he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee medal for his contributions to Canadian mining. 
• In 2013 he was inducted into the Order of Canada (C.M.) the nation’s highest civilian honor. The only recipient ever to be cited for his work on Canadian Corporate governance. 
• In 2018 he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) a grouping of global asset managers with AUMs ~$50 trillion in 47 nations. He was only the third Canadian to be so recognised.