A growing number of faculty members are associated with the Centre’s activities. Below are the profiles of key faculty holding leadership roles with the Hennick Centre.
 Ed Waitzer - Director
Edward J. Waitzer has been the inaugural Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance, a joint appointment between Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University, since 2007. Previously, he was the Falconbridge Professor of Commercial Law (2005/6) and served as an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode. He teaches a range of courses including Business Associations, Corporate Governance, Investor Protection, Mergers & Acquisitions and an "Art of the Deal" seminar.
Mr. Waitzer was Chair of Stikeman Elliott LLP from 1999 to 2006 and is a senior partner whose practice focuses on complex business transactions, public policy and governance matters. He has previously served as Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission (and of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions) and as Vice-President of the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has written and spoken extensively on a variety of legal and public policy issues and has served as director of a number of corporations, foundations, community organizations, editorial boards and advisory groups.
 Poonam Puri - Co-Director
Professor Poonam Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate governance, corporate law, and securities law. She is Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies, and Institutional Relations at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is also Co-Director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, and serves as Head of Research and Policy at the Capital Markets Institute, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto.
In 2008, Professor Puri was appointed to the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority and is currently chair of its Corporate Governance and Nominating Committees. She also sits on the Board of Governors of Mount Sinai Hospital and is a member of the National Advisory Council for Statistics Canada. She has an LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where she was the Silver Medalist in her 1995 graduating law class, and she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School. Professor Puri is a 2005 recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40™ award, the 2008 recipient of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce Female Professional of the Year Award, and the 2010 recipient of the Professional Excellence Award from the Canadian Association of South Asian Lawyers and the Lawyer of the Year from the South Asian Bar Association.
 James L. Darroch - Co-Director
James L. Darroch is an Associate Professor of Policy at the Schulich School of Business, York University. He
holds an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Strategic Management and International Business
from York University. Professor Darroch has taught at York since 1986. He was
director of Entrepreneurial Studies from 1993 until 1996, Area Coordinator for
the Strategic Management Area from 1996-1999, Director of the York Consulting
Group from 1997 to 2005, and is currently Director of the
Financial Services Program. He has twice been nominated for the School’s
Teaching Excellence Award.
His research has focused upon strategic management of financial services firms,
and especially on governance and enterprise risk management in recent year. This research has led to consulting assignments on strategic renewal
encompassing leadership, strategy formulation and implementation issues with
both small and large private sector organizations, including Bank of Montreal,
Bata, Credit Union Central of Canada, DuPont of Canada, Inco, The Royal Bank of
Canada, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Sony Music as well as public sector
organizations, including, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
the World Bank, the Department of National Defense, The Ontario Ministry of
Housing, and the Ontario Nurses Association.
In 1997, Professor Darroch joined the working group for the Toronto International
Centre for Financial Sector Supervision (Toronto Center). This is a joint
enterprise among the Schulich School of Business, the
Canadian Government, The World Bank, the IMF and the Stability Forum of the
Bank for International Settlements. He helped to design and implement a global
leadership and strategy program targeted at senior supervisory and regulatory
officials. From 2002 - 2006, he was academic program director for the Risk
Management Curriculum at the Bank of Montreal. This program was the first of
its kind and involved extensive work with the Chief Risk Officer of the Bank of
Montreal both in planning and delivery.
 Tom Johnson - Faculty Director of the JD/MBA Program (from Osgoode)
Professor Tom Johnson has been a member of the Osgoode Hall Law School
Faculty since 1987. Prior to that, he taught at the University of
Western Ontario, and has also held visiting appointments at the University of
Auckland, the University of Victoria, the University of Saskatchewan's Program
of Legal Studies for Native People and at Aix-Marseilles III. Professor Johnson’s teaching areas include contracts and commercial
law, international business transactions, corporate finance, and
international development. His academic interests are focused in the areas of
commercial law, project finance and international development, and his
publications include articles on secured transactions, property law, and land
tenure reform. He is the co-director of Osgoode’s JD/MBA program, and has also
served as Director of Osgoode’s Small Business Clinic, and as co-director of
Osgoode’s LL.M Program in Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
As a consultant to multilateral development agencies and various governments
Professor Johnson has advised on financial sector reform, land tenure reform,
institutional strengthening and the rule of law, predominantly in Latin
America, the Caribbean, and Central Asia.
 Peter Macdonald - Faculty Director of the JD/MBA Program (from Schulich)
Peter Macdonald is a lawyer, mediator and co-director of the Joint M.B.A./J.D. Program at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Peter graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1985 and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1987. From 1987 to 1994, Peter practised corporate/commercial and securities law with two downtown Toronto law firms and a large multinational corporation in Montreal. Over the past fifteen years, Peter has been engaged as an independent commercial mediator in a broad range of corporate, banking, personal injury, employment and insurance-related disputes.
In addition to his mediation practice, Professor Johnson teaches various business law courses to B.B.A., M.B.A. and Joint M.B.A./J.D. students at the Schulich School of Business where he has received numerous Teaching Excellence Awards. Peter has also been extensively involved in designing and delivering intensive negotiation and mediation training programs for judges, lawyers, public sector agencies and other business professionals throughout Ontario.
Also helping to guide the Centre toward its objectives are the Hennick Centre Executive Committee and Advisory Committee comprised of practicing business leaders and lawyers, as well as our Fellows, which operationalize our mission and goals.
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