Ottawa:

Firdaus Kharas, an India-born entrepreneur and thought chief, has been appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada, one of many nation’s highest honours, for advancing social change by human-centred media.

The annual listing of 2023 appointees to the Order of Canada was launched by Governor Common of Canada Mary Simon on Thursday.

The Order of Canada is one in every of our nation’s highest honours. It recognises individuals throughout all sectors of society who’ve made extraordinary and sustained contributions to Canada.

Simon’s workplace introduced three new appointments of “companions” — the very best degree of the Order of Canada — 15 officers, together with one honorary officer, and 59 members.

Kharas, 68, had been appointed officer of the Order of Canada “for advancing social change by human-centred media as a social entrepreneur, humanitarian and mass communications media producer”.

“I’m deeply moved to obtain this excessive honour, which is particularly significant to me as an immigrant. Though a excessive reaching group, Parsis are a minuscule group numbering solely 3,600 in Canada, so this can be very satisfying to be seen on this manner,” Kharas mentioned in a press release.

Appointees will probably be invited to an investiture ceremony at a later date to obtain their insignia. The dates of those ceremonies will probably be introduced sooner or later.

Kharas is a famend producer of social and behavioural change communications which has been seen by over a billion individuals. He based Chocolate Moose Media in 1995, a social enterprise, to create mass communications to raised the human situation.

His work has been utilized in 198 nations, together with in a number of languages all through India. He’s the recipient of 125 awards, together with the celebrated Peabody Award and a number of other honourary doctorates from universities.

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