Allan Gotlieb

Allan E. Gotlieb is a senior advisor to Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto; chairman of Sotheby's Canada; chairman of the Canadian Group of the Trilateral Commission; and North American deputy chairman. Mr. Gotlieb is a director of Davis + Henderson Income Trust. He is also chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation and the Aurea Foundation. A past director of various Canadian and U.S. companies, Mr. Gotlieb is a trustee of the Art Gallery of Ontario, a trustee of the Gardiner Museum, a director of the Ontario Arts Foundation, and serves on several advisory boards. Mr. Gotlieb was Canadian ambassador to the United States (1981-89), under-secretary of state for external affairs (1977-81), and chairman of the Canada Council (1989-94). He is a companion of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Government of Canada. Mr. Gotlieb is an honorary and former fellow of Wadham College and visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. A former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Gotlieb was also William Lyon MacKenzie King Professor at Harvard University and Claude Bissell Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He holds an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Toronto and a number of other universities and is the author of several books on international law and diplomacy.