Arthur Porter
Physician, Academic
1956 –
Who is Arthur Porter?
Arthur T. Porter IV, PC, is a Canadian physician.
In February 2004, Porter was appointed Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre in Montréal, Canada, one of Canada's largest academic health centres.
He also served as Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee of Canada which reviews the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency. He was appointed to the position by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 3, 2008, and along with that appointment, was made a Privy Councillor.
On May 27, 2013 he was arrested in Panama on fraud charges connected to one of Canada's biggest health-care scandals.
As of March 2014, Porter was still under arrest in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada .
He was suceeded as Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee by Chuck Strahl.
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- Born
- 1956
Freetown - Parents
- Ethnicity
- Sierra Leone Creole people
- Profession
- Education
- University of Tennessee
- University of Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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