Sr. Academic Administrative Appointment Terms

(At November 2023)

Note: Review & Selection Committees are to be established at least 12 months, but no more than 20 months, prior to the end of the appointment term. Terms of more than five years include a leave provision.

Position

Incumbent

Term

Appoint Selection Committee 

President & Vice-Chancellor

Alan Shepard

Term 1: July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2024
Term 2: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2029

Apr 2028

Provost & Vice-President (Academic)

 

Florentine Strzelczyk

Term 1: May 1, 2022 - June 30, 2027

Apr 2026

Vice-President (Research)

Penny Pexman

Term 1: Sept 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2028

 Apr 2027

Vice-President (Operations & Finance)

Lynn Logan

Appointed June 22, 2017 (indefinite term)

N/A

Vice-President (University Advancement)

Vacant

Vice-Provost & Associated Vice-President (Western International)

Lily Cho

Term 1: July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2028

Apr 2027

Vice-Provost (Academic Planning, Policy & Faculty)

Margaret McGlynn

Acting Term: July 1, 2020 – Mar 15, 2021
Term 1: Mar 15, 2021 - June 30, 2025

Apr 2024

Vice-Provost (Academic Programs) 

Susan Lewis

 Term 1: Sept 2, 2022 – June 30, 2027 

Apr 2026

Vice-Provost (Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies)

Kamran Siddiqui

Term 1: Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2028

  April 2027

Vice-Provost & Chief Librarian

Catherine Steeves

Term 1: Aug 18, 2014 – June 30, 2019
Term 2: July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2024

Committee Active

Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Initiatives)

Christy Bressette

Term 1: Mar 1, 2021 – Mar 1, 2026

Apr 2025

Vice-Provost (Students)

John Doerksen

Term 1: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2027

Apr 2026

University Registrar 

Marisa Modeski

Effective May 1, 2023 (indefinite term)

N/A

Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Jan Plug (Acting)
*on leave

Ileana Paul

Acting Term: July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024

Acting until January 31, 2024

Committee Active

Dean, Don Wright Faculty of Music

Michael Kim

 Term 1: Aug 1, 2021 - June 30, 2026

Apr 2025

Dean, Faculty of Education

Donna Kotsopoulos

Term 1: January 1, 2021-- Dec 31, 2025

Apr 2024

Dean, Faculty of Engineering

Ken Coley

Term 1: July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2024
Term 2: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2029

Apr 2028

Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences

Jayne Garland

Term 1: Jan 1, 2016 – June 30, 2021
Term 2: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2026

Apr 2025

Dean, Faculty of Information & Media Studies

Lisa Henderson

Term 1: Jan 1, 2019 – June 2024
Extension: June 2023 - June 30, 2025

Apr 2024

Dean, Ivey Business School 

Sharon Hodgson

Term 1: May 6, 2019 – June 30, 2024

Committee Active

Dean, Faculty of Law

Erika Chamberlain

Term 1: May 1, 2017 – June 30, 2022
Term 2: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2027

Apr 2026

Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

John Yoo

Term 1: May 1, 2020 – June 30, 2025

Apr 2024

Dean, Faculty of Science

Matt Davison
(on sabbatical)

Jeff Hutter
(Acting)

Term 1: July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2023
Term 2: July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2029



July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024

Apr 2028

 

 

Dean, Faculty of Social Science

Nicholas Harney

August 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2026

Apr 2025

University Secretary

Amy Bryson

March 11, 2021 (indefinite term)

N/A