{"id":11799,"date":"2024-01-22T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11799"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:49:02","slug":"peter-coughlin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/peter-coughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Coughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Peter Coughlin\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Peter-Coughlin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11800\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Coughlin was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 9, &#8220;in recognition of his leadership in business development, architectural heritage and his volunteer service in the fields of health and education.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University (1975) and a M.B.A. from Western University (1979).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started his business career in 1980 with the Canadian National Railway Pension Fund before moving to Cemp Investments. In 1987, he became senior vice-president of real estate investments for Cemp\u2019s successor, Claridge Properties Inc., and was appointed president in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He co-founded Redbourne Properities Inc. in 1995. It manages a real estate portfolio in excess of five million square feet, including some of Montreal\u2019s premium commercial buildings, such as Place Montreal Trust and Place du Parc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has served as board chair of Lower Canada College and the Montreal General Hospital Foundation. In 2010, he joined McGill\u2019s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Coughlin was on the organizing committee of Montreal\u2019s Hockey Helps the Homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gx5-n27DrqU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Peter Coughlin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Coughlin was awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 9, &#8220;in recognition of his leadership in business development, architectural heritage and his volunteer service in the fields of health and education.&#8221; He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University (1975) and a M.B.A. from Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11799","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11799\/revisions\/13520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}