Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala
Virginia Thompson
Executive Producer
Biography
Past Chairs of the Board of Trustees of the NAC
Adrian Burns, LL.D.
Ottawa ON
December 2014 to December 2022
Julia Foster
Toronto ON
July 2006 to July 2014
Dr. David S.R. Leighton, O.C.
London ON
May 1999 to May 2006
Ms. Jean Thérèse Riley
Toronto ON
April 1995 to April 1999
Mrs. Madeleine Panaccio (Acting Chair)
Montréal QC
July 1994 to April 1995
Mr. Robert E. Landry, C.M.
Ottawa ON
1987 to 1994
Mr. J. Pierre Boutin
Québec QC
1984 to 1987
The Honourable Pauline McGibbon, C.C.,
Toronto ON
1980 to 1984
Mr. Arthur Gelber, O.C.
Toronto ON
1977 to 1980
Me François Mercier, O.C., Q.C.
Montréal QC
1969 to 1977
Mr. Lawrence Freiman
Ottawa ON
1967 to 1969
Past Executive Directors of the NAC
Peter Herrndorf, C.C., O.Ont.
(President and CEO)
September 1999 – June 2018
Ms. Elaine Calder
(Acting Executive Director)
Nov. 2, 1998 to June 15, 1999
Mr. John Cripton
September 1996 to October 1998
Ms. Jean Thérèse Riley
(Acting Executive Director)
January to September 1996
Ms. Joan Pennefather
December 1994 to December 1995
Mr. Jack Mills
(Acting Director General)
January to December 1994
Mr. Yvon Desrochers
1988 to 1994
Mr. Ronald Blackburn
(Acting Director General)
September 1987 to May 1988
Mr. Bruce Corder
(Acting Director General)
March 1987 to September 1987
Mr. Donald MacSween
1977 to 1987
Mr. G. Hamilton Southam
1967 to 1977