Ben Levin

Benjamin Ruvin Levin (born 1952) is a Canadian former civil servant, educational scholar, and convicted sex offender. He was a Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. He served for three years in the Ontario Liberal provincial government of Dalton McGuinty, as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Education, after having held a similar post in Manitoba. He also served as an advisor to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. On March 3, 2015, Levin pleaded guilty to three charges relating to making and distributing child pornography. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. He only spent three months of his sentence in jail before being paroled. Early life Levin was born in 1952 into a Jewish family in West Kildonan, a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the second of four brothers. Career Levin holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Manitoba, an Masters of Education from Harvard University as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa.