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.

Academic Planning

pETER HALL 

Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic (AVPA)

avpa@sfu.ca

Zareen Naqvi

Executive Director, Institutional Research and Planning

zareen_naqvi@sfu.ca

Annual Enrollment Plan and Targets; Departmental Profiles; Performance Measures; Space Utilization; Student and Institutional Data; Enrollment Management and Planning (Senate Committee).

YOLANDA DORRINGTON

Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning

yolanda_dorrington@sfu.ca

Jill Sutherland

Director, University Curriculum and Institutional Liaison

ucil_director@sfu.ca

Curriculum Review/Reform; Fraser International College; New Program Approvals; Undergraduate Curriculum; W Seat Funds; University Priorities (Senate Committee).

jocelyn chapman 

Coordinator, University Curriculum and Institutional Liaison

ucil_office@sfu.ca

Rich Chambers

Accreditation Manager

rich_chambers@sfu.ca
778-782-9534

Alyssa Bridgman

Executive Assistant, AVPA

avpacad@sfu.ca
778-782-6654

Mary  Holmes

Director, Special Projects

mary_holmes@sfu.ca
778-782-6563

Academic Affairs

Jane Pulkingham

Senior Advisor, Academic Affairs

acadaffairs@sfu.ca

Faculty Relations

CATHERINE STODDARD

Executive Director, Faculty Relations

fr_execdir@sfu.ca
778-782-4715

adam james

Director, Labour Relations

frdir@sfu.ca
778-782-6845

Suman Jiwani

Director, EDI, Faculty Initiatives 

suman_jiwani@sfu.ca
778-782-9880

Silvana De Benedetto

Assistant and Reception

frsupp@sfu.ca
778-782-9715

Learning and Teaching

Paul kingsbury

Associate Vice-President Learning & Teaching pro tem

avplt@sfu.ca

Sheri Fabian

Director, Transforming Inquiry into Learning and Teaching

sfabian@sfu.ca
778-782-8136

Gino LeBlanc

Director, Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs

baffdir@sfu.ca
778-782-6981

KIRAN BISRA

Director of Learning Experiences Assessment and Planning

kiran_bisra@sfu.ca
778-782-1867

Jackie Amsden

Communications Officer, AVP-Learning & Teaching

lt_comms@sfu.ca
778-782-9247

Katrina Warniez

Communications Assistant, AVP-Learning & Teaching

avpltcom@sfu.ca
778-782-9247

Mayank Chirag Desai

Executive Assistant, AVPLT

avpltea@sfu.ca
778-782-8977

Strategic Initiatives

kris magnusson

Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives

vpa_strat@sfu.ca

TRACY YIU

Special Projects Manager

vpaproj1@sfu.ca

Students

Rummana Khan-Hemani

Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Students & International

 

Tom Nault

Registrar & Executive Director, Student Enrollment

sfu_reg@sfu.ca
778-782-4176

[VACANT]

Executive Director, Student Affairs


778-782-3570

Luc Simard

Executive Director, Althetics and Recreation 

luc_simard@sfu.ca
778-782-4080

Leanne Dalton

Senior Director, Student Success and Strategic Support

leanne_dalton@sfu.ca
778-782-7367

Carolyn Hanna

Senior Director, International Services for Students

iss_dir@sfu.ca

Jessica La Rochelle

Director, Indigenous Student Centre (ISC)

jessica_larochelle@sfu.ca
778-782-6929

CJ Rowe

Director, Sexual Violence Support & Prevention Office

cj_rowe@sfu.ca
778-782-5515

Tariza Bastos

Manager, VPSI Office

admvpsi@sfu.ca
778-782-7880

Larissa Antunes

Executive Assistant, VPSI Office

vpsi_ea@sfu.ca
778-782-4170

Audrey ling

Executive Assistant, Student Services

ssea@sfu.ca
778-782-6710

jennifer yuen

Executive Assistant, Student Services

regadmin@sfu.ca
778-782-3108

Administration

Carla Deresh

Executive Director

carla_deresh@sfu.ca
778-782-6561

Academic Service Contracts; Conference Funding; Decanal Searches;

Melanie Brown

Director, Senior Leadership Support

melanie_brown@sfu.ca
778-782-7859

ROSE EVANS

Director, Senior Leadership Support

lt_da@sfu.ca
778-782-5464

Alisha Walsh

Director, Senior Leadership Support

acad_dir@sfu.ca
778-782-3114

Tara Smith

Manager

vpa_mgr@sfu.ca
778-782-6562

Amanda Pataky

Executive Assistant, Provost

vpacad@sfu.ca
778-782-3925

Calendar-VPA; Excellence in Teaching Awards; Sterling Prize for Controversy.

Zinnat Ali

Executive Office Assistant

vpaexec@sfu.ca
778-782-5731

Reception; website; meeting room bookings.

Yué Bizenjima-Chrea

Administrative Coordinator

byue@sfu.ca
778-782-5433

ERIN BABINGAO

Executive Assistant, AVPLT (on leave)

avpltsec@sfu.ca

Bal Basi

Quality Assurance Manager

bbasi@sfu.ca
778-782-7676

Finance and Budget

Sara Du

Director, Finance and Resource Planning

vpafin@sfu.ca
778-782-5745

Budget, Faculty Renewal Planning, Tri-council Awards, Endowments; Faculty Teaching Fellows; Michael Smith Foundation; Start-up Grant Funding.

Helen Zhang

Budget Coordinator

vpabud@sfu.ca
778-782-8621

SFU Surrey

steve dooley

Executive Director

sdooley@sfu.ca

Barinder dhesi

Executive Assistant, Surrey Campus Administration

srydir@sfu.ca
778-782-7477

Stephanie Sauro

Director, Campus Administration

stephanie_sauro@sfu.ca

Kinson Lo

Campus Space Coordinator

klo@sfu.ca
604-368-3534

Nav Chima

Director, Community Programs & Partnerships

nchima@sfu.ca
604-825-4195

Jennifer Giamblanco

Coordinator, Communications & Engagement

jennifer_giamblanco@sfu.ca

SFU Vancouver

Laurie Anderson

Executive Director

laurie_anderson@sfu.ca
778-782-5010

Claudia Wang

Director, Campus Administration

claudia_wang@sfu.ca
778-782-7909

Vera Shatilova

Administrative Coordinator

vanexec@sfu.ca
778-782-5010

Kelsie Fo

Coordinator, Communications and Engagement

kelsie_fo@sfu.ca
778-782-9343

Kimberly To

Communications and Events Assistant

vanadmin@sfu.ca
778-782-3407

Budget Office

Janis Kennedy

Director

janis_kennedy@sfu.ca
778-782-3233

Cian Lawlor

Associate Director

cian_lawlor@sfu.ca
604-364-3203

Sally Huang

Sr Financial Analyst

sally_huang_2@sfu.ca
778-782-2561

Peyman Abedi-Rad

Sr Business Analyst

peyman_abedi-rad@sfu.ca
778-782-7359

David Zheng

Sr Financial Analyst

dzheng@sfu.ca
778-782-4321

Kam Gill

Budget Analyst

kkg11@sfu.ca
778-782-6872

SFU International

Shaheen Nanji

Executive Director

nanji@sfu.ca

Carol Zachs

Senior Director, Global Engagement

carol_zachs@sfu.ca

Jennifer Jackson

Director, Operations and Administration

sfuidiro@sfu.ca

Mohit Payare

Project Manager

mpayare@sfu.ca

Mirranda Cross

Manager, Global Enagement

mcross@sfu.ca

Yukino Mori

Manager, Global Engagement

ymori@sfu.ca

Sarah Ngo

Manager, Global Engagement

sngo@sfu.ca

Bill Hu

Administrative Coordinator

sfui@sfu.ca

mark keilthy

Director, Global Engagement

mkeilthy@sfu.ca