Ronald Osborne was brn in
Ashington,
Sussex,
England, and graduated from
Cambridge University in 1968, majoring in modern languages. Osborne worked initially an accountant in his early career, after qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1972. Osborne left Britain to work for
Clarkson Gordon & Co in
Toronto, Canada, and later in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1976. In 1997, he left the private sector to join
Ontario Hydro and later was president and CEO of
Ontario Power Generation after the breakup of Ontario Hydro. In his later years, Osborne was with
Postmedia as chair in 2010 and was director of various other companies. Osborne died in his home in
Florida, U.S., at the age of 66 and he was buried in
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in
Toronto, Canada. ==References==