FPN02-56
Iter Canada CEO Peter Barnard Passes Away
September 4, 2002
Dr. Peter Barnard, Chairman and CEO of Toronto-based Iter Canada, passed
away on August 29 at Toronto's General Hospital, at age 64. He had been
struggling with prostate cancer for the past four years, though those who
knew him never noticed any decrease in his boundless energy and enthusiasm
during those years. Peter founded Iter Canada in
1997 and was instrumental in Canada becoming the first country to formally
offer to host the muti-billion dollar Iter fusion engineering test reactor.
Due to his failing health, he missed the latest Iter negotiating session
in France but received a note from the Japanese
delegation that read, in part, "The Japanese Delegation which today
presented their bid is so much aware that the Iter process owes such a
great deal to your dynamism, personal engagement and never ending optimism.
All the more they are finding it particularly sad
that you are missing."
Peter received his Ph.D in Mechanical Sciences from Cambridge University,
England, and was a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard
University. He had a long and distinguished career in management and
consulting, including a three year stint as Chairman of Ontario Hydro
Technologies (1994-1997). More details can be found at
http://www.peterbarnard.ca/