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Kent, Tom
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Dates of existence
1922-2011
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Tom Kent was a journalist, public policy analyst, and Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Administrative Studies from 1980-1983. He was born in 1922 in Stafford, England. He studied at Oxford and worked as a code-breaker at the top-secret Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War. After that, he became a journalist in Britain and moved to Canada in 1954 to become editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. Kent served as a policy adviser to Liberal leader and prime minister Lester Pearson, becoming a deputy minister in the Pearson government. In 1980, he led an inquiry into newspaper ownership that was known as the Kent Commission. He was an advocate for medicare and the Canada Pension Plan. Kent died on November 15, 2011.
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Dalhousie University. Faculty of Management (1975-)
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Dates of relationship
1980-1983
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Tom Kent was Dean of Administrative Studies from 1980-1983.