Paul Davenport
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Paul Theodore Davenport, OC , BA , MA , Ph.D , LL.D (born 1946) is the ninth president of the University of Western Ontario.
Born in Summit, New Jersey, he graduated magna cum laude from Stanford University in 1969 with a BA in economics. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He moved to Canada and earned an MA and Ph.D in economics from the University of Toronto. Beginning in 1973 he taught economics at McGill University. From 1986 to 1989, he was Vice Principal, Planning & Computer Services. In 1989 he became president of the University of Alberta, and became president of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) on July 1, 1994.
He has honorary degrees from the University of Alberta (1994), the University of Toronto (2000), and the International University of Moscow (2002). He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2001, one of only a few foreigners to be awarded this honour. He was also named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002. Among UWO students, especially the student newspaper The Gazette, he is often referred to as "the French knight."
He is a member of the economics department at UWO and continues to supervise theses and publish articles. His term currently extends to 2009, making him only the third president of Western to serve longer than ten years.
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- Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. Retrieved on May 29, 2006.
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| Preceded by George Pedersen |
President of the University of Western Ontario 1994 – present |
Incumbent |
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