Denise Carruthers, PhD., is an active member of the Ottawa community, and a long-time supporter of the Ottawa Hospital. She is a founding partner of The Permedia Research Group, an Ottawa-based petroleum exploration software company, sold to a Fortune 200 company in 2010.

A scientist and philanthropist, Denise was a Founding Board member of the Alexandria Archive Institute, honoured as a Champion of Change in Open Science at the White House in 2013. Locally, Denise is Vice Chair of Elmwood School Board of Governors, a member of the Executive Committee and is Chair of Elmwood’s Development Committee.

Denise received a Doctoral Degree in Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

She was awarded the Prestigious Overseas Research Scholarship from the United Kingdom and a Carnegie Scholarship from The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to complete her Doctoral Research. She was also awarded a Postdoctoral Honorary Research Fellowship from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.