Education and Personal Life
Taylor was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He completed his BA at Victoria College of the University of Toronto and his MBA at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a brother of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and has since been honoured with its highest award, Significant Sigma Chi. He returned to the University of Toronto for several years as the Chancellor of Victoria College. Ken Taylor remains a Canadian citizen. He currently resides in New York.
Taylor left the foreign service in 1984 and served as Senior Vice-President of Nabisco (RJR Nabisco after 1986) from 1984 to 1989.
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