{"id":11802,"date":"2024-01-22T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11802"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:48:55","slug":"tom-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/tom-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"P. Thomas (Tom) Jenkins"},"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                        P. Thomas (Tom) Jenkins\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=\"167\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Tom-Jenkins.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Tom-Jenkins.png 167w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Tom-Jenkins-160x200.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Jenkins was presented with the degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 9 &#8220;in recognition of his stellar contributions to education, enterprise and innovation in both the public and private sectors in Canada.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is chair of the board of OpenText\u2122 Corp. of Waterloo, the largest software company in Canada, as well as chair of the National Research Council and the 10th chancellor of the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Jenkins pioneered many technologies commonly used today to manage digital information. He is the author or co-author of 10 widely read books on Internet publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a member of the board of Manulife Financial Corp., Thomson Reuters Inc. and TransAlta Corp. He is also a director of the Business Council of Canada, the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and a member of the advisory council of the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.<\/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=ui0PHd1f31g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF P. Thomas (Tom) Jenkins<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jenkins was presented with the degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 9 &#8220;in recognition of his stellar contributions to education, enterprise and innovation in both the public and private sectors in Canada.&#8221; He is chair of the board of OpenText\u2122 Corp. of Waterloo, the largest software [&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-11802","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11802","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=11802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13519,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11802\/revisions\/13519"}],"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=11802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}