Dr Richard Leblanc

Richard W. Leblanc
Associate Professor, Law, Governance & Ethics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, of the Bar of Ontario; Adjunct Faculty, Osgoode Hall Law School; Summer Faculty 2012 (MGMT S-5018 Corporate Governance) at Harvard University; and Research Fellow and Advisory Board Member, Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance, University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management.

PhD	York University (Schulich School of Business)
LLM	York University (Osgoode Hall Law School)
JD	University of Detroit
LLB	University of Windsor
MBA	University of Toronto (Rotman School of Management)
BSc	University of Toronto
Member	Law Society of Upper Canada
Member	Roll of Solicitors (UK)
CMC	Certified Management Consultant

Email	rleblanc@yorku.ca
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Tel.	+1 (416) 736-2100 x 33744
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Professor Leblanc is a tenured, award-winning teacher and researcher, consultant, lawyer and specialist on boards of directors. He is also a former recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40™ award. The award recognizes individuals from across Canada based on accomplishments demonstrating vision, leadership, innovation and achievement. He was recently named to Canadian Who’s Who. In 2011, he was named as one of the National Association of Corporate Director’s D100 “people to watch” and was one of five faculty to receive a teaching award from OCUFA (representing 17,000 professors) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to university teaching. Professor Leblanc is scheduled to teach Corporate Governance at Harvard University during the summer of 2012. View video sample here.

Professor Leblanc’s research expertise is in corporate governance, specifically in the effectiveness of boards of directors. The recruitment, education and assessment of individual directors, including their skills, competencies and behaviours, are a feature of Dr Leblanc’s research expertise. Governments, regulators, industry and shareholder associations both in Canada and internationally, including the Senate of Canada, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Industry Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Ontario Securities Commission, Toronto Stock Exchange, Financial Services Corporation of Ontario, Crown Investment Corporation, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the International Network of Government Ownership Agencies and commonwealth directors’ associations, have drawn on Professor Leblanc’s expertise and work. Click here for more.

Dr Leblanc has served as an external advisor to boards that have won national awards and peer endorsement from institutional shareholders for their corporate governance practices and has also acted as a corporate governance expert witness in recent years. He has conducted over two hundred director interviews and has studied, advised and/or assessed dozens of boards in action. This work has spanned audit, compensation, nominating and governance committees, chairs of boards, chairs of board committees and CEOs. Click here for more.

Professor Leblanc developed and currently teaches/has taught the graduate course in Corporate Governance and Financial Accountability in the inaugural Master in Financial Accountability (MFAc) Program (click here for more) and Corporate Governance in the LL.B. and LL.M. programs at Osgoode Hall Law School. He coordinated, developed and taught the Business Law courses in the Bachelor of Administrative Studies Program (BAS). He also formerly coordinated and developed inaugural courses in Business Ethics at the undergraduate and graduate levels within his department, respectively. Prior to his current appointment, Dr Leblanc developed and taught the Boards of Directors course and taught the Advanced Concepts in Strategic Management course at the Rotman School of Management (MBA Program); developed and taught the Business Ethics course at University of Toronto at Scarborough (B.Com./B.A. Program); and developed, taught and coordinated the Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance courses at the Schulich School of Business (MBA/EMBA Programs, and Department of Executive Development, respectively). He has also guest lectured and spoken at universities and directors programs in the US, UK, Russia, Mexico, Caribbean region and other Commonwealth countries and several Canadian provinces. He regularly engages in community outreach on board effectiveness.

Dr Leblanc has published in academic and practitioner-based journals, including Corporate Governance: An International Review, International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, The Corporate Board and others. In addition, Professor Leblanc is a co-author or contributing author to a number of books and other publications, including: “Perspectives on Corporate Governance,” in Idowu, S.O., et al., eds., Corporate Social Responsibility: An International Encyclopaedia (forthcoming, 2011); with Lindsay, H., 20 Questions Directors of Not-For-Profit Organizations Should Ask About Building an Effective Board (Toronto: Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, 2010) View here; “Getting the Right Directors on Your Board,” in Conger, J., ed., Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board (with J. Bower, J. Lorsch, S. Finkelstein, E. Lawler, D. Dalton, M. Useem, J. Sonnenfeld et al.) (Jossey-Bass, 2009) View here; with Burke, R., “Women on Corporate Boards: The Canadian Perspective,” in Burke, R., Singh, V., Bilimoria, D., and Huse, M., Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: Research and Practice (Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar, 2009) View here; “Developing Effective Corporate Governance,” in Wesson, T., ed., The New World Economic Order (Captus, 2007); and “Assessing the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors and Individual Directors,” in Ali, P. U., and Gregoriou, G. N., eds., International Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley (Wiley, 2006); and Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance with J. Gillies (Wiley, 2005) View here.

Professor Leblanc is the recipient of awards for his research, teaching and other contributions, including the School of Administrative Studies Award for Theory and Practice, the Schulich School of Business Award for Teaching Excellence, and Merit Awards. Click here for more.