WILFRID J. WILKINSON
President, Rotary International
Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario, Canada
Wilfrid J. Wilkinson is founding partner of Wilkinson & Company, a public accounting firm. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and received his chartered accountancyappellation after studying at Mc Gill University in Montreal.
Mr. Wilkinson was 1992-93 president of the Public Accountants Council – Province of Ontario, and is a member and past officer of both the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is also a member of the Institute of Charged Accountants of Quebec and the Royal Canadian Military Institute. He is chairman of the Trenton Memorial Hospital fundraising committee, was the founding chairman of the Belleville Cheshire Home for Physically Handicapped Adults, and has served as chairman of the board for Loyalist College.
A Rotarian since 1962, Mr. Wilkinson is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario. He has served as a Rotary volunteer on a measles immunization project in India. A past Rotary director, vice-president of the RI board, and district governor, he has also been an International Assembly discussion leader, and a chairman and member of several committees.
As a member of the International PolioPlus Committee, Mr. Wilkinson is dedicated to the global effort to eradicate polio. Rotary’s PolioPlus program, launched in 1985, is an aggressive public/private partnership to assist international health agencies and governments to certify the world as polio-free.
