David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet

David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet ( born June 12, 1957) is a Canadian businessman. With a fortune of 19 billion dollars is the on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world at No. 20 He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, and in 2002 his successor as CEO of Thomson Corporation. He lives in Toronto.

Thomson attended Upper Canada College in Toronto, after which he studied until 1978 at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Business

Thomson has worked in several companies that are part of their family or be controlled by it. He was the manager of a branch of The Bay, a fashion store chain, and President of Zellers, the second largest Canadian wholesale chain. He founded the real estate firm Osmington Incorporated, which is not part of the Thomson family.

When his father Kenneth died in June 2006, David took over the management of the Thomson Corporation. This was in 1975 set by David's grandfather, founder Roy Thomson in his autobiography. With the death of his father he also inherited the British title of Baron Thomson of Fleet, who had been his grandfather, a newspaper baron of Fleet Street, awarded in 1964.

Private

Thomson was married twice and has three children, two daughters from his first marriage and a son, the designated heir of the family fortune is.

As before, his father is David Thomson, a donor to the Art Gallery of Ontario and owns a valuable collection of paintings by John Constable. He lives a very retired and are hardly the press interviews. He was engaged to actress Kelly Rowan, with whom he has a common child.