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Howard Wetston, Chair and CEO of the Ontario Securities Commission, photographed during a press conference about Capital Markets Enforcement on March 2 2015.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

Former Ontario Securities Commission chair Howard Wetston has been appointed a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, a Toronto-based research organization.

Mr. Wetston, 68, left the OSC in November after a six-year term heading Canada's largest securities regulator, and said in an interview at the time that he wanted to find "new experiences."

C.D. Howe chief executive officer William Robson said he is enthusiastic about working with Mr. Wetston because of his long history of work in various areas of public policy.

"He has made significant contributions to addressing many of Canada's most critical regulatory challenges," Mr. Robson said.

Before joining the OSC in 2010, Mr. Wetston was CEO of the Ontario Energy Board and headed the federal Competition Bureau. He is also a former Federal Court of Canada trial judge.

C.D. Howe offers its unpaid senior fellowship positions to people with a "distinguished past record" of public service in key research areas for the institution, which include an array of business and public-policy topics, said Daniel Schwanen, C.D. Howe vice-president of research.

The role of a senior fellow varies depending on the individual. Fellows typically participate in policy councils that inform research programs and review papers prior to publication, Mr. Schwanen said.

Some senior fellows also research and write papers themselves, and receive an honorarium for the work.

"Often what we find is that the fellow enjoys the intellectual association and keeping current with policy debates, while we benefit from the lens brought to our work by those experienced in government or public institutions more generally," he said.

Mr. Wetston is also a member of the advisory board for the program on ethics in law and business at the University of Toronto and a member of the advisory board of the business school at Cape Breton University.

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