Alan Shepard | |
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11th President of the University of Western Ontario | |
Assumed office 1 July 2019 | |
Chancellor | Kelly Meighen |
Preceded by | Amit Chakma |
4th President of the Concordia University | |
In office 1 August 2012 – 30 June 2019 | |
Chancellor | L. Jacques Ménard Jonathan Wener |
Preceded by | Judith Woodsworth Frederick Lowy (interim) |
Succeeded by | Graham Carr |
Personal details | |
Born | c.1962 (age 61–62) Iowa, U.S. |
Citizenship | Canadian, American |
Education | St. Olaf College (BA) University of Virginia (PhD) |
Occupation | University academic and administrator |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Marlowe's anatomy of desire (1990) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Sub-discipline | Early Modern English literature |
Institutions | |
Alan Shepard (born c. 1962)[1] is a 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.