Dr. Charmaine Dean is University of Waterloo Vice-President, Research and International providing strategic leadership on research and innovation, commercialization, and internationalization. She is responsible for building strategic alliances and partnerships with other academic institutions, governments, and industries and has driven initiatives focused on both ethics and social impact of technological developments and on research equity and diversity.
Dr. Dean previously served as the Dean of Science at Western University, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Chair of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at SFU, and President of the Statistical Society of Canada. She is also Chair of Council for NSERC.
