As Vice-Provost and Dean, Dr. Quadir embraces innovative thinking as the basis for advancing both the long and short-term goals of graduate education at Queen’s University. Prior to joining Queen’s, Dr. Quadir served as Interim Dean and Associate Vice-President Graduate in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, where he was a Professor of Development Studies. From July 2013 to May 2017, he held the position of an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. He is the founding director of York University’s Graduate Program in Development Studies and its undergraduate program in International Development Studies. Previously, he held academic positions at St. Lawrence University in New York, Queen’s University at Kingston and the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. He also taught at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Professor Quadir specializes in International Development, International Relations and International Political Economy. He has edited/co-edited five books and published extensively in various international peer reviewed journals relating to South-South cooperation, emerging donors, aid effectiveness, good governance, civil society, democratic consolidation, transnational social movements, human security and regional development.

A seasoned executive, strategist, and researcher, Malvina Klag has held leadership, consulting and facilitation roles across private, public and community sectors in Canada. Clients and employers include organizations ranging from small start-ups to large local, Canadian and multi-national organizations in health and social services.  Key achievements lie in the areas of: 1) strategic planning and capacity-building in complex settings; 2) the structuring of major change; 3) multi-sectoral stakeholder mobilization; and 4) social innovation to effect sustained health and social systems advancement. Malvina holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behaviour from McGill University. In addition to her consulting work, she is a Research Affiliate at the J.W. Burns Leadership Institute, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba.  Research interests centre around strategic planning, organizational change and systemic change in complex and pluralistic settings. Her work has appeared in practice-based, educational, and academic journals.

Dr. Lori Mac is a registered Counselling Psychologist and Senior Instructor who has been with the University of Manitoba Student Counselling Centre since 2008. She is a generalist, but works in the areas of interpersonal relationships (building healthy relationships, interpersonal difficulties, break-ups), communication and conflict, and trauma (single-event, developmental, complex) as particular areas of interest. In addition to providing personal, career, group, and couples counselling as well as workshops and outreach, she is also the Coordinator for the Advanced Practicum in Counselling, and the Assistant Director of Training and one of the primary supervisors for the Predoctoral Residency Program in Professional Psychology.

David is the Director of Student Counselling and Wellness at the University of Manitoba and has been on staff since 1991. His training background is clinical psychology and in addition to his administrative duties, he provides counselling and therapy to students using an integrative approach that emphasizes cognitive, developmental, client-centred and insight-oriented approaches. David uses these approaches to work with students presenting with anxiety, relationship, trauma recovery, family conflict, and career indecision and other difficulties. He also enjoys facilitating groups and workshops and delivering programming across campus at the University of Manitoba.

Dr. Robin Hicks has been a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at the University of Victoria for 29 years. He has a B.Sc. from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph. He has held a number of academic leadership roles at UVic, including Associate Dean and Acting Dean in the Faculty of Science, and Associate Vice-President Academic Programs. Since 2021 he has held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UVic, which includes 3,000 graduate students enrolled in over 160 unique research-based and professional programs.

Dr. Kelley Main started her career at the University of Manitoba in 2007. She received a BA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, a MA in Psychology from the University of Manitoba and a PhD in Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing from the University of British Columbia. She was at the Schulich School of Business at York University for 3 years prior to joining the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Main’s prior administrative service includes being the Head of the Marketing Department and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate programs at the Asper School of Business in addition to being an Associate Dean and Acting Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies prior to becoming Dean.