Donna Kotsopoulos is the Dean and a professor at the Faculty of Education. She is an extremely proud alum of Western where she earned her doctorate in educational studies in 2007 and was the Governor General Gold Medalist. She is the President of Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher. Her research explores mathematics learning across the lifespan as well as postsecondary education – particularly strategic resource allocation, leadership, and university governance. Her service, research, and teaching have been recognized with several awards, including the John and Gail MacNaughton Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2020), an OCUFA teaching award (2014), the Fields Institute Fellow (2017) through the esteemed Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.
