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Meet The Team

The Provost and VPA team provides vision and leadership to academic activities. We serve a large and diverse audience across SFU, and our team is equally diverse and spread out across all three campuses.

Applied Sciences

Oliver Schulte

Director, School of Computing Science

oschulte@cs.sfu.ca
778-782-8826

Term: Sept 1/24 -Aug 31/26

cheng li

Director, School of Engineering Science

enscdir@sfu.ca
778-782-8113

Term: Aug 1/23 - July 31/28

John Shen

Director, School of Mechatronics Systems Engineering

zjshen@sfu.ca
778-782-8456

Term: Jan 1/22 - Dec 31/26

zafar adeel

Director, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE)

school_director_see@sfu.ca
778-782-4378

Term: Aug 1/23 - Jul 31/25

Arts and Social Sciences

John Alderete

Director, Cognitive Science Program

alderete@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Martin Bouchard

Director, School of Criminology

crimdir@sfu.ca
778-782-8135

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Anke Kessler

Chair, Department of  Economics

econ_chair@sfu.ca
778-782-3443

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Stephen Collis

Chair, Deparment of English

scollis@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/27

Jorge Calderon

Chair, Department of French

frenchr@sfu.ca

Term: Jul 1/23 - Aug 31/26

Helen Leung

Chair, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

gswschr@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/25

Habib Chaudhury

Chair, Department of  Gerontology

chaudhury@sfu.ca
778-782-5232

Term: Jan 1/22 - Dec 31/24

Nadine Attewell

Director, Global Asia Program

gadir@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/27

Janice MAtSUmura (acting)

Chair, Department of History

histchr@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/25

David Mirhady

Chair, Department of Global Humanities

david_mirhady@sfu.ca
778-782-3906

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/25

wenona hall

Chair, Department of Indigenous Studies

wenona_hall@sfu.ca
 

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/28

Elizabeth Cooper

Director, School for International Studies

ecooper@sfu.ca

Term: May 1/24 - Apr 30/27

Panayiotis Pappas

Chair, Department of Linguistics

lingchair@sfu.ca
778-782-5514

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/26

Endre Begby

Chair, Department of Philosophy

chairphi@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/23 -Aug 31/25

Anil (Andy) Hira

Chair, Department of Political Science

chairpol@sfu.ca
778-782-3286

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/25

Timothy Racine

Chair, Department of Psychology

psyc_chair@sfu.ca

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/26

Genevieve LeBaron

Director, School of Public Policy

genevieve_lebaron@sfu.ca
778-782-5289

Term: Jan 1/22 - Dec 31/26

Wendy Chan

Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology

sa_chair@sfu.ca
778-782-4469

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Karen Ferguson (Acting)

Director, Urban Studies Program

kjfergus@sfu.ca
778-782-7958

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/25

Jia Fei

Chair, Department of World Languages & Literatures

jia_fei@sfu.ca
778-782-7618

Term: May 1/24 - Apr 30/25

Beedie School of Business

Communication, Art and Technology

Milena Droumeva

Director, School of Communication

cmnsdir@sfu.ca
778-782-3731

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/27

Peter Dickinson

Director, School of Contemporary Arts

peter_dickenson@sfu.ca
604-908-0993

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/27

Thecla Schiphorst

Director, School of Interactive Arts & Technology

siat_dir@sfu.ca
778-782-7441

Term: Sept 1/214- Aug 31/27

Hannah McGregor

Director, Publishing Program

Term: Sep 1/23 - Aug 31/26

Education

Janice St. Helene

Director, of Professional Programs

pps_assoc_director@sfu.ca
778-782-6629

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/24

robert williamson

Director, Undergraduate Programs

robert_williamson@sfu.ca
778-782-7085

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/26

Mark Fettes

Director, Graduate Studies in Education

mtfettes@sfu.ca
778-782-2555

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/26

Environment

Hugo Cardoso

Chair, Department of Archaeology

hcardoso@sfu.ca
778-782-4171

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/25

David Green (Acting)

Director, School of Environmental Science

sesdir@sfu.ca
778-782-3981

Term: Sept 1/24 - Dec 31/24

Nicholas Blomley

Chair, Department of Geography

blomley@sfu.ca
778-782-3713

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/26

Sean Markey

Director, School of Resource & Environmental Management

sean_markey@sfu.ca
778-782-4702

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Health Sciences

Nienke van Houten

Director, Undergraduate Programs

nvanhout@sfu.ca
778-782-9065

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Lawrence Mc Candless

Director, MSc and PhD Programs

lmccandl@sfu.ca
778-782-8651

Term: Sept 1/22 - Aug 31/25

Lifelong Learning

Science

Tony Williams

Chair, Department of Biological Sciences

biscchr@sfu.ca
778-782-4982

Term: Jan 1/22 - Apr 30/25

Steven Robinovitch

Chair, Department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology

bpk_chair@sfu.ca 
778-782-3566

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/27

Charles Walsby

Chair, Department of Chemistry

chemchr@sfu.ca
778-782-4607

Term: May 1/22 - Apr 30/27

Daniel Gibson

Chair, Department of Earth Sciences

easc_chair@sfu.ca
778-782-7057

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/27

Cedric Chauve

Chair, Department of Mathematics

math_chair@sfu.ca
778-782-7091

Term: Jan 1/24 - Dec 31/26

Lisa Craig

Chair, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

licraig@sfu.ca
778-782-7140

Term: Sept 1/24 - Dec 31/26

Levon Pogosian

Chair, Department of Physics

physchr@sfu.ca
778-782-7598

Term: Sept 1/23 - Aug 31/26

Derek Bingham

Chair, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science

dbingham@sfu.ca
778-782-3426

Term: Sept 1/24 - Aug 31/26

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