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Michael de Pencier, MA, LLD, C.M., O.Ont. is an entrepreneur and environmental investor.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Mr. de Pencier attended Trinity College School, the University of Toronto (B.A. 1958) and the University of Michigan (M.A. 1960).

Mr. de Pencier is the Chair of Key Publishers Company Ltd., which under his leadership became Canada’s largest independent periodical publishing company. In this role, he launched, acquired or ran many of the country’s leading magazines, including Toronto Life, Canadian Geographic, Quill and Quire, Where Magazines and Canadian Business.

Mr. de Pencier was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 1997, and the Order of Canada in 1999.

In 2002, he received an honorary doctor of Letters from Ryerson University.