George T.H. Cooper

George T.H. Cooper was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada on May 16, 2008, for a four-year term. On October 4, 2012, he was reappointed for a two-year term.

Mr. Cooper is Interim President of the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, having been appointed to that position in July, 2012. He is on leave from the Atlantic Canada law firm of McInnes Cooper, where he remains Counsel; formerly he practiced corporate and commercial law in the firm’s Halifax office. He was Chair of the firm’s board of directors from 2006–2012. He is a former Member of Parliament and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice of Canada. Mr. Cooper is also Managing Trustee of the Killam Trusts, comprising some $400 million in educational and scholarship endowments at several Canadian universities and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Mr. Cooper received his Bachelor of Science (1962) and his Bachelor of Laws (1965) from Dalhousie University. He later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received a Bachelor of Civil Law (1967), and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar the same year. Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta and the University of King’s College have each granted him honorary Doctor of Laws degrees in 2004, 2007 and 2008, respectively.