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The President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) serves as the administrative head of the institution. There have been fifteen people have served as president in the history of the institution, including those that held the position on an interim basis, with Martha C. Piper serving twice as president. They include:
Martha Piper. Martha C. Piper OC OBC is a Canadian academic administrator who was the president and vice-chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1997 until 2006. She was the 11th person and the first woman to serve as president of UBC. Having been born in Lorain, Ohio, she is also the first person born outside Canada to have ...
Alumni of the University of British Columbia. Bertram Brockhouse, BA 1947, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1994) Robert Mundell, BA 1953, Nobel laureate (Economics, 1999) Kim Campbell, BA 1969, 19th Prime Minister of Canada. Bjarni Tryggvason, BS 1972, NRC / CSA astronaut.
The University of British Columbia awarded its first degrees in 1916, and Klinck became the second president in 1919, serving until 1944. In 1917, Evlyn Fenwick Farris became the first woman in Canada to be appointed to the board of governors of a university— a founding governor of UBC. [ 19 ]
Santa Ono. Santa Jeremy Ono FRSC FCAHS (Japanese: 小野 三太; born November 23, 1962) [1] is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator who has been serving as the 15th president of the University of Michigan since October 2022. [2] Ono served as the 15th president of the University of British Columbia from 2016 to 2022 and ...
Stephen Toope. Stephen John Toope OC FRSC (born February 14, 1958) is a Canadian legal scholar, academic administrator and a scholar specializing in human rights, public international law and international relations. In November 2022, he was appointed as the fifth president and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Pages in category "Presidents of the University of British Columbia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Doctoral advisor. Stephen Cook, Alasdair Urquhart. Arvind Gupta (born c. 1961) is an Indo-Canadian computer scientist who was the 13th President of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the former CEO of Mitacs Canada.