Ontario Securities Commission chairman David Wilson announced the appointments of three new commissioners on Wednesday.

Wilson announced the appointment of commissioners James Carnwath, effective Aug. 12th, and Sinan Akdeniz and Charles Wesley Moore (Wes) Scott, effective Sept. 8th, each for a term of two years.

“I welcome the addition of Messrs. Carnwath, Akdeniz and Scott as Commissioners and Board members,” said Wilson. “These individuals bring the breadth of knowledge and experience necessary to discharge the adjudicative, as well as regulatory and operational oversight activities of the OSC.”

Carnwath is a former Justice of the Divisional Court, Ontario Superior Court of Justice and was the Senior Judge for the Central-West Region. He retired after 29 years on the bench. He has served as Chair of the Education Committee of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, and was responsible for the organization, staffing and course content of the Seminar for Newly-Appointed Federal Judges and for the Judicial Writing Seminar for federally appointed judges.

Akdeniz qualified in the United Kingdom as a professional accountant. He held progressively senior positions with TD Bank Financial Group, in roles involving derivatives structuring and trading management.

Scott is a retired corporate executive who spent more than 30 years in the Bell Canada group, retiring in 2001 as chief corporate officer of BCE Inc. and vice-chairman of Bell Canada. Throughout his career he held several senior positions in finance, operations and regulatory matters. Scott has also been a member of many public and private company boards in Canada and the United States.