George Cohon
About the Author
George Cohon, senior chairman and chairman of the executive committee of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada and senior chairman of McDonald’s Russia, was born in Chicago and emigrated to Canada in 1967 with his wife and their two young sons. He came to build McDonald’s in Eastern Canada, and he ended up opening more than a thousand restaurants across the country – and thirty more in the former Soviet Union.
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Cohon has also received the Israel Prime Minister’s Medal (Israel’s highest public service award) and the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews Human Relations Award, among many other awards for his work on behalf of charity. He is also the founding patron of Ronald McDonald Houses and is founder of Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities in both Canada and Russia.
When he’s not in Moscow or St. Petersburg or up at his country home near Orangeville, Ontario. George Dohon lives in Toronto with his wife, Susan.
David MacFarlane is the author of the widely acclaimed book The Danger Tree, and of numerous award-winning feature articles in leading Canadian magazines, including Maclean’s and Toronto Life.
