Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell

Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell

Eleanor Ruth Clitheroe, MBA, LL.M, LL.B, M.Div (born January 29, 1954) is a Canadian cleric and former businesswoman. She was president and CEO of Hydro One, the intended private successor to Ontario Hydro till she was dismissed amid an expense account scandal.

Born in Montreal, Clitheroe earned her LL.B from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 1977. In 1978 she earned her LL.M from McGill University, and earned her MBA from UWO in 1980. In 2005, she obtained a Master of Divinity,the degree most commonly awarded by Canadian Seminaries, from Wycliffe College. She is a candidate for a PHD Theology at University of Toronto.

She articled at the Tory, Tory DesLauriers & Binnington law firm in Toronto, and worked for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. She was Ontario's deputy minister of finance under the New Democratic Party of Bob Rae from 1990 to 1993. She was then appointed a vice-president of Ontario Hydro, and was appointed president and CEO when its name was changed to Hydro One. In 2000, she became chancellor of University of Western Ontario.

From 2000 until 2004 she was chancellor of the University of Western Ontario. In 2005, she was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada, and later that year, was priested. She is executive director of Prison Fellowship Canada,. Known to her parishioners as "Reverend Ellie", she and her third husband live on an extensive horse ranch near St. Catharines, Ontario. She is pastor at St. Lukes, Smithville.