William Lilly, a former barrister and historian in Canada and England, is a member of the Inns of Court and Middle Temple, and has been a Queen's Counsel since 1976. Throughout, he has been a director of both private and public companies, one of which led him to participate in the development of surveillance and location technologies which his company represented in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Following World War II, William travelled throughout Europe with the support of the Minister for External Affairs of Canada to observe the reconstruction, formation of governments, and constitutional arrangements of several European, Asian, and African countries, and his information encouraged the government to provide peace-keeping forces at the request of the United Nations. William is a citizen of both Canada and the United Kingdom.