Curriculum vitae Richard W. Pound, O.C., O.Q., Q.C., Ad. E., F.C.P.A.
PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth: 22 March 1942 Place of Birth: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Nationality: Canadian Married: 3 children, 2 stepchildren
PROFESSION
Lawyer (Counsel) STIKEMAN ELLIOTT LLP Suite 4000 1155 René Lévesque Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3B 3V2 (514) 397-3037
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1958 Junior Matriculation; Mount Royal High School 1962 Bachelor of Commerce; McGill University Scarlet Key Honour Society 1963 Bachelor of Arts; Sir George Williams University (Dean’s Honour List) 1964 Chartered Accountant; Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec Licentiate in Accounting; McGill University 1967 Bachelor of Civil Law; McGill University (Carswell Company Prize) 1968 Member of Bar of Province of Quebec 1980 Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario Bar 1980 Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario 1991 Queen’s Counsel (Federal Appointment) 2000 Fellow, Order of Chartered Accountants of Québec 2010 Advocate Emeritus (Ad.E.) Quebec Bar
HONORS AND AWARDS 1989 Doctor of Philosophy (honoris causa) United States Sports Academy 1992 Officer, Order of Canada 1993 Officier, l’Ordre national du Québec 1997 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) University of Windsor 2004 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) University of Western Ontario 2005 Doctor of Sports Administration (honoris causa) Laurentian University 2006 Doctor of Beijing Sport University (honoris causa)
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2007 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) Lakehead University 2008 Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) Loughborough University (England) 2008 Honorary Professor Capital Institute of Physical Education (Beijing) 2009 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) McGill University 2010 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) Université du Québec 2010 Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) Concordia University 2010 University of Guelph Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Leader Award 2010 Swimming Canada Inaugural “Impact” Award 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award – Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Associations
Canadian Bar Association Canadian Tax Foundation International Fiscal Association American Bar Association (Business Advisor) Business Law Section Association de planification fiscale et financière International Association of Practicing Lawyers Federal Court Bench and Bar Liaison Committee, 1999 –2001, 2003-2006 Director La Fondation Lafontaine-Cormier Director Quebec Bar Foundation
Professional Publications
Editor-in-Chief: Doing Business in Canada, a three-volume looseleaf service published by Matthew Bender & Co. Inc. (1983-2000) Editor-in-Chief: Stikeman Annotated Income Tax Act, published by Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing. Editor-in-Chief: Canada Tax Cases, published by Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing (1981 - ) Author: Pound’s Tax Case Notes, published by Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing (1989 - ) Editor : Legal Notes, CGA Magazine (1982-2003) Sometime Member Editorial Board Canada Tax Service Contributor to many legal and professional publications
Teaching
Sometime Lecturer: o McGill University Faculty of Law o McGill Centre for Continuing Education o Quebec Real Estate Association Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise Science – Concordia
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University (1991- ) Regular invited lecturer at universities throughout Canada and United States
Other
Chubb Fellow, Timothy Dwight College, Yale University (2004) Member Advisory Committee to Chairperson of Canadian Judicial Council (2006 - ) Honorary Consul General of Norway in Montréal Paul Harris Fellow, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International Life Governor, Quebec Bar Foundation
Other Publications
Five Rings Over Korea: the Secret Negotiations behind the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Little Brown & Co., (1994) Chief Justice W.R. Jackett: By the Law of the Land, McGill-Queen’s University Press (1999) Stikeman Elliott: The First Fifty Years, McGill Queen's University Press (2002) Inside The Olympics, a Behind-The-Scenes look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of The Games, John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd (2004) High Impact Quotations, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (2004) Canadian Facts and Dates, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (2004) Inside Dope, How Drugs are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done about Them, John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd (2006) Unlucky to the End, The Story of Janise Marie Gamble, McGill-Queen’s University Press (2007) Rocke Robertson: Surgeon and Shepherd of Change, McGill-Queen’s University Press (2008) Stikeman Elliott: New Millenium, New Paradigms, McGill-Queen’s University Press (2012) A Tax Guide for American Citizens in Canada (with Max Reed), Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing (2013) Quotations for the Fast Lane, McGill-Queen’s University Press (2013) Made in Court: Supreme Court Cases that Shaped Canada, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (2014)
COMMUNITY AND OUTSIDE INTERESTS
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McGill University
Chancellor Emeritus 2009 - Governor Emeritus 2009 - Chancellor, 1999 – 2009 Chairman, Board of Governors, 1994 – 1999 Governor, 1986 – 2009 McGill Fund Council o Chairman, 1992 – 1995 McGill Alumni Association o President, 1981 – 1982 Martlet Foundation o Trustee, 1971 – 1990 o Governor, 1991 – McGill Annual Funds o Chairman, 1989 – 1992 McGill Athletics Board o Chairman, 1989 – 2009 o Vice Chairman, 1985-1989 o Graduate Representative, 1976-1989 McGill Society of Montreal o Director, 1967 – 1972 McGill Institute for the Study of Canada – Trustee (2001-2012) McGill Queen’s University Press Director 2009 – Athletics Hall of Fame – inducted 2010
McGill Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award McGill Alumni Association Award of Merit, 1997 McGill Alumni Association Special Award, 2009
President, National Association of University Board Chairs and Secretaries, 1996-1997
Canadian Interuniversity Sport: Lester B. “Mike” Pearson Award, 2001
Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education “Friend of Education” Award 2004
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement, 2009 (only second Canadian to win this award)
International Olympic Committee
Member (co-opted 1978) Elected to Executive Board, 1983 - 1991; 1992 – 2000 Elected Vice-President, 1987 - 1991, 1996 – 2000 Chairman, Olympic Games Study Commission 2002 - 2003 Chairman, Marketing Commission, 1986 –2001, member 2005 -
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Chairman, Television Negotiations Committee 1983 –2001 Chairman, Coordination Commission for 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta Chairman, Marketing Coordination Committee Chairman, Centennial Working Group 1992-1996 Chairman, IOC Centennial Coin Programme 1990 – 1997 Chairman, Ad hoc Commission Regarding Corruption in Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games, 1998-1999 Member Emblems Commission, 1974 – 1977 Member Program Commission, 1985 – 1987 Member Juridical Commission, 1992 – Member Sport and Law Commission 1995 – 2001; 2014 - Vice Chairman Eligibility Commission, 1985 – 1991 Chairman, ad hoc Committee for the Protection of the Olympic Games (1981 - 1983) Responsible for all commercial matters (television, marketing, sponsorships, licensing, new media) 1983-2001 Arbitrator and Mediator, Court of Arbitration for Sport 1985-2007 Member International Council of Arbitration for Sport, 2007 – Member, Olympic Philately, Numismatic and Memorabilia Commission, 2014 – Chairman, Olympic Broadcast Services, 2014 -
World Anti-Doping Agency
Founding Chairman, World Anti-Doping Agency, 1999-2007 Member of World Anti-Doping Agency Foundation Board, 1999 -
Honours
International Swimming Hall of Fame Gold Medallion Award 2002 Named to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for his relentless efforts to rid sport of performance-enhancing drugs (2005) Awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for his work as the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (2008) Play the Game Award 2013 (The Outspoken Insider) Several Canadian and foreign decorations
Canadian Olympic Committee
President 1977 – 1982 Secretary 1968 – 1977 Director and Executive Committee Member 1968 to date Awarded Canadian Olympic Order (Gold) 1996 Quebec Sports Hall of Fame 2001 Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame November (2011)
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Organizing Committee for XVth Olympic Winter Games (Calgary)
Director and Member of Executive Committee (1981 - 1989)
Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Director 2003 – 2012
Pan American Sports Organization
Member Executive Committee Chairman Legislative Commission
Canadian Amateur Swimming Association
Treasurer & Director (Quebec Section) 1965 – 1970
Canadian Grenadier Guards (longest continuously serving regiment in Canadian Army)
Hon. Colonel 2014 – Hon. Lt. Col. 2007 – 2014
Other
The Foundation for Quebec University Athletics Governor, 1985 – 1998 The Portage Programme for Drug Dependencies Governor, 1990 – Stanstead Wesleyan College Trustee, 1976 – 1980 The Allegra Foundation Director, 1981 – 1992 Canadian Squash Racquets Association Director and Secretary, 1972 – 1977 Coaching Association of Canada Director, 1977 – 1982 Canadian Red Cross Society Member of Divisional Water Safety Committee, 1963 – 1968 Chairman, Montreal Branch Water Safety Committee, 1963 – 1968 The Royal Life Saving Society, Quebec Branch Vice-President, 1974 – 1977 International Society of Olympic Historians Lifetime member World Forum on Sport and Physical Recreation Chairman, Board of Directors 1995 – 2001
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Montreal Sport International (MSI) Member, Board of Directors 1998 – 2005 Canada’s National History Society Member President’s Advisory Council 2001-2007 Chairman 2011 – Director 2007 - FINA World Swimming Championships Montreal 2005 Director, Honorary President RCMP Heritage Centre Director 2007 - 2013 ParticipACTION Director 2007 - Partnership for a Drug Free Canada Chairman 2010 - Foundation of Greater Montreal Chairman, 2011 – Vice-President 2010 - Director 2009 – Swimming Canada Honorary Chair of CanSwim Movement, 2011 - President – Canadian Civil Liberties Association, 2011 -
SPORTS AND HOBBIES
Swimming, squash, tennis, golf, philately, photography, Canadian Art Winner of 1 Gold (110 yards freestyle), 2 Silver and 1 Bronze medals – 1962 Commonwealth Games (Australia) Double Olympic finalist (swimming) 1960 Olympic Games (Rome) Member of Canadian Swimming Team - 1959 Pan-American Games (Chicago) Canadian, provincial and intercollegiate swimming champion 1958 – 1962 Has been a nationally ranked squash player - singles and doubles
CLUBS
Mount Bruno Country Club Club Atwater Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (Past President) The Jesters Club Kappa Alpha Society