Patrick D. Lafferty retired in 2002 after more than 38 years serving PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Toronto, London (U.K.), Montreal, New York, and Ottawa. He provided auditing, business valuation, financial management, strategic planning services to the private sector, regulated industries, three government levels, Crown corporations, and the United Nations. This included terms as Assistant Auditor General of Canada; member of the Public Sector Accounting and Auditing Standards Committee of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants; co-author of a governance study entitled Effectiveness Reporting and Auditing in the Public Sector; and national leader of the government, telecom industry and postal services. He also served on the Boards of Opera Lyra, The Rideau Club, and The Country Club.
Through the 1990s, he provided strategic planning support to the Medical Research Council, The Canadian Medical Discovery Fund, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, most branches of Health Canada, the Ontario Cancer Research Network, Rick Hansen Foundation, the Canada West Health Innovation Council, and several universities and research institutes. In retirement, he served as a member of the Ontario Cancer Working Group. He provided strategic planning services to St. Boniface Hospital Research Institute, Genome Canada, Ontario Photonics Institute, and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. He recently completed terms on the Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research Board and the Henry G. Friesen International Prize for Health Research. He continues on the University of Ottawa Institute for Mental Health Research and the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation boards.
