George Simpson receives the 2008 Donald M. Stuart Award

The RIMS Ontario Chapter named George Simpson, senior manager of risk management and insurance of EPCOR Utilities Inc., as the 2008 recipient of the Donald M. Stuart Award.
The award was presented at the 33rd Annual Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Canada Conference in Toronto.
It was created in 1979 to recognize a Canadian that has contributed and shown innovation, leadership and dedication to the RIMS community and the risk management profession at large.
Simpson has 37 years of experience in the risk management and insurance industry. He established the risk management program at EPCOR. Prior to that, he spent five years as a risk management consultant with Aon Reed Stenhouse, designing risk management programs for urban and rural communities.
He is an active member of the Northern Alberta RIMS chapter and has participated in the organization at the national and international level.
Simpson is also a director of the William H. McGannon Foundation board.
“When one reads through the letters of recommendation and support from colleagues and the risk management community, one is very much left with the vision of a man who exudes integrity and professionalism and, as one colleague wrote, a gentleman,” ORIMS president Erin Magilton-Morneau said when presenting the award to Simpson.