Toronto, June 13, 2012 – Business leader Dominic Stephen Barton will receive an honorary degree from York University on Thursday, June 14, at the 10:30am Convocation for students in the Schulich School of Business.  Judge Warren K. Winkler will be awarded an honorary degree at the 3:30pm Convocation for Osgoode Hall Law School.

Dominic Stephen Barton, Business leader, Doctor of Laws, Thursday, June 14, 10:30am 

Current managing director of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Dominic Barton is a leader in the field of corporate responsibility and responsible capitalism. He led McKinsey’s office in Korea from 2000 to 2004 and worked in Shanghai as McKinsey’s chairman in Asia from 2004 to 2009.

He is the author of Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises (with two co-authors) and China Vignettes: An Inside Look at China. Dominic Barton received the Magnolia Gold Prize from the Shanghai government for his outstanding contributions to the city’s development, was named one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors, and was named a Rhodes Trustee in 2010. He is also a member of the Schulich Dean’s Advisory Council.

Warren K. Winkler, Judge, legal scholar, Doctor of Laws, Thursday, June 14, 3:30pm

Warren K. Winkler was appointed chief justice of Ontario in 2007, following 14 years as a trial judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario. As a superior court justice, he was a judicial mediator for many large national and international disputes, including the restructuring of Air Canada and the Walkerton tainted water disaster.

His expertise in civil litigation, class proceedings, commercial and administrative law and his skills as a mediator have contributed significantly to grounding judicial mediation into the court process in Ontario. In recognition of his superior mediation skills, the “Winkler Cup” is awarded annually at the Canadian National Mediation Advocacy Competition.

Osgoode Hall Law School established a scholarship in Winkler’s honour in 1988, in recognition of the double graduate. He is the recipient of the Toronto Lawyers’ Association Award of Distinction, the University of Toronto’s Bora Laskin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labour Law, and the Ontario Bar Association’s Award of Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution. For information about plans for a Winkler Dispute Resolution Institute, click here.

Convocation ceremonies will take place at the Convocation Pavilion located at the Rexall Centre, 1 Shoreham Drive, at York University’s Keele campus (#8 on map).
Ceremonies will be webcast at the following link, which will become live when ceremonies begin: http://www.yorku.ca/mygrad/livewebcast.

York University is a leading interdisciplinary research and teaching university in Canada. York offers a modern, academic experience at the undergraduate and graduate level in Toronto – Canada’s most international city. The third largest university in the country, York is host to a dynamic academic community of 55,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, as well as 250,000 alumni worldwide. York’s 10 faculties and 28 research centres conduct ambitious, groundbreaking research that is interdisciplinary, cutting across traditional academic boundaries. This distinctive and collaborative approach is preparing students for the future and bringing fresh insights and solutions to real-world challenges. York University is an autonomous, not-for-profit corporation.

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