The University of Waterloo is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo,Ontario,Canada. The main campus is on 404 hectares of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates three satellite campuses and four affiliated university colleges. The university offers academic programs administered by six faculties and thirteen faculty-based schools. Waterloo operates the largest post-secondary co-operative education program in the world,with over 20,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the university's co-op program. Waterloo is a member of the U15,a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.
Lloyd Norman Axworthy is a Canadian politician,elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Following his retirement from parliament,he served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2014 and as chancellor of St. Paul's University College. He is currently the Chair of the World Refugee &Migration Council.
Frederick Hans Lowy,is a Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University.
Christopher David Naylor is a Canadian physician,medical researcher and former president of the University of Toronto. He is ICES scientist emeritus and founding CEO. In 2016,he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Bartha Maria Knoppers,OC OQ is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics,genomics and biotechnology.
Lorna Marsden,is a Canadian sociologist,academic administrator,and former Senator. She is the former President and Vice-Chancellor of both Wilfrid Laurier University and York University,and a former member of the Senate of Canada.
Burton Clare Matthews was a Canadian soil scientist and an academic administrator. He was President of the University of Waterloo from 1970 to 1981 and the University of Guelph from 1983 to 1988.
Amit Chakma is a university administrator who was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia in July 2020. Previously he served as the 10th president and vice-chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 2009 to 2019.
David Ralph Spence is a Canadian retired Anglican bishop.
Feridun Hamdullahpur is the chancellor of International Business University. Previously,he was the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Hamdullahpur was named the sixth president of the University of Waterloo in March 2011. Hamdullahpur's term ended on July 1,2021,when his successor,Vivek Goel,took office.
Prabhat Jha is an Indian-Canadian epidemiologist currently working in the field of global health.
Linda Faye Nazar is a Senior Canada Research Chair in Solid State Materials and Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo. She develops materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Nazar demonstrated that interwoven composites could be used to improve the energy density of lithium–sulphur batteries. She was awarded the 2019 Chemical Institute of Canada Medal.
Alan Shepard is an American-Canadian academic and the current and 11th president and vice-chancellor of Western University in London,Ontario,effective July 2019. He previously served as the president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal.
Homer Chin-nan Tien is a Canadian trauma surgeon and the president and CEO of Ornge,an air ambulance non-profit based on Ontario. He also holds the rank of colonel in the Canadian Forces Health Services,associate professorship at the University of Toronto,and was the former director of Trauma Services at Sunnybrook's Tory Regional Trauma Centre. He is the first to hold the Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research.
Eileen Ann Mercier is a Canadian businesswoman. In 2016,she was appointed the Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University,having formerly served as chair of the board of directors of Payments Canada and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. In 2018,she was named one of Canada's 100 most powerful women and was inducted into the Women's Executive Network Hall of Fame.
Sushanta Kumar Mitra is a Canadian mechanical engineer. He is an elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,the Canadian Academy of Engineering,the Engineering Institute of Canada,Royal Society of Chemistry,the American Physical Society,the Electrochemical Society,and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Laura C. A. Rosella is a Canadian epidemiologist who is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in the University of Toronto. She studies public health and the social determinants of health. Rosella holds a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics.
Mary Shanna Croughan is an American epidemiologist and academic administrator serving as the provost and executive vice chancellor of the University of California,Davis since 2020.
