J. Robert S. Prichard is President and Chief Executive Officer of Torstar Corporation. Torstar is a leading Canadian media company with three major businesses: daily newspapers, led by Canada’s largest daily, the Toronto Star, community newspapers led by Metroland Media Group, Canada’s largest community newspaper company, and book publishing led by Harlequin Enterprises, a leading global publisher of romance and women’s fiction. Mr. Prichard is also President Emeritus of the University of Toronto where he previously served as dean of law and as a professor specializing in law and economics. Mr. Prichard is a director of the Bank of Montreal, Onex Corporation and George Weston Ltd. He also serves as Chairman of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Law School and as a director of the Toronto Community Foundation. He studied honours economics at Swarthmore College, received his MBA from the University of Chicago and earned law degrees at the University of Toronto and Yale University. He holds nine honourary degrees and is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of Ontario.