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Peter George (professor)
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Peter James "Ruddiger" George, C.M. (born 1941) is a Canadian economist and university administrator. He is currently president of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, George graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, a Master of Arts degree in 1963, and a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Toronto. He joined McMaster University as a lecturer in 1965. In 1967, he became an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1971, and a Professor of Economics in 1980. From 1974 to 1979, he was Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and from 1980 to 1989 was Dean of Social Sciences. He was appointed president of McMaster on July 1, 1995 and is currently serving his third five-year term. He is also a Freemason.
From 1991 to 1995, he served a term as president of the Council of Ontario Universities.
In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
George has a number of publications to his credit in his academic career, including two books:
- Government Subsidies and the Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (New York : Arno Press, 1981) ISBN 0405137575
- The Emergence of Industrial America: Strategic Factors in American Economic Growth Since 1870 (Albany : State University of New York Press, 1982) ISBN 0873955781 (hard cover), ISBN 087395579X (paperback)
- Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
- McMaster Undergraduate Calendar 2003-2004 (2003). Undergraduate Calendar. Hamilton: McMaster University Press. Dr. George's nickname is listed under the trivia section of the faculty page.
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