SFU Confers Honorary Degree Upon Director and Executive Chair of Powertech
June 4, 2008
 On Tuesday afternoon, in front of a sea of capped and gowned graduates, Powertech Executive Chair Mossadiq Umedaly was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from Simon Fraser University in recognition of his professional, academic and environmental achievements. Umedaly is also the Chair of BC Hydro. “Of the honours and awards I have received in my lifetime – of the many demonstrations that I have been welcomed and accepted into the Canadian community – this is the sweetest,” says Mossadiq. Born in Uganda, he came to Canada first as a student and then as a refugee. After graduating from McMaster University, he began his career with Price Waterhouse. Since then, his keen business sense and compassion for our world have involved him in a number of successful projects. These include the development of a medical university and teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, the transformation of Ballard Power Systems and Xantrex Techonology Inc. into world technology leaders, and contributions to B.C.’s Clean Air and Energy Plans. “It has been a source of pride and pleasure that I have been able to work, in Canada and around the world, on endeavours that are truly worthwhile,” says Mossadiq, who also serves on the advisory boards for the Faculties of Business at the University of British Columbia, McMaster University and Simon Fraser University. “Whether building a medical university in the developing world or searching for business, technical, social and political solutions to a gathering environmental and energy crisis, I have risen, most days, with the conviction that I was doing something that held out both promise and opportunity. “I learned that if you do all that you can do, with honesty, with integrity, with tenacity – the results will always be positive.”
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