Salah Bachir, CM OOnt (born October 3, 1955) is a Canadian business executive, entrepreneur, publisher, art collector, fundraiser, and philanthropist.

[1] In June 2017, he was appointed the fourth Chancellor of Toronto's OCAD University, one of Canada's pre-eminent schools of art, design and digital media.

On October 17th, 2023, Bachir's memoir First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People ...Who Happen to Be Famous was published by Penguin Random House Canada.

[10] During this period, he helped launch several home video labels, including Disney, Universal, Vestron and Thorn EMI, as well as two creative agencies, Imaginus Graphics and New Image Complete Print Services.

Salah Bachir revolutionized the Canadian movie theatre business when he brought Cineplex Media into a multi-year, multi-pronged partnership with Scotiabank that included the Scene Loyalty Program, a multi-million-dollar exclusive advertising deal.

Working closely with Rick White, Scotiabank’s VP of Marketing and Branding, Bachir achieved tremendous success with innovative, customer-related programmes.

[16] Both Cineplex and Scotiabank attribute a huge increase in brand equity, loyalty and inroads to a younger demographic audience to the success of these programs.

His diverse collection of more than 3,000 pieces features many works by Canadian artists such as Betty Goodwin, Stephen Andrews and Attila Richard Lukacs.

The exhibition featured such well-known artists as Stephen Andrews, Atilla Richard Lukacs, Betty Goodwin, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Herb Ritts, and examined themes of seduction and identity.

Plus Mandela by Herb Ritts; Einstein by Yousuf Karsh; and assorted photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber, Robert Mapplethorpe and Man Ray.