Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 5, 2006
• Invested on: October 26, 2007

Through his multi faceted career in the Canadian petrochemical industry, Robert Pierce has fostered its evolution and growth. Following a successful career as a lawyer in Saskatchewan, he moved to Calgary in 1973, where he held senior executive positions with Nova Corporation and other major companies. Among his accomplishments, he helped to establish western Canada's first world-scale ethylene plant and to expand the export market for Alberta's natural gas. Later, he led the international team that built the first natural gas pipeline to cross the Andes Mountains. He has also provided leadership to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and the Calgary Military Museum Society.