Senate Membership 2023-2026

Ex Officio

  • Chancellor (Ms. Judy Rogers)
  • President, Chair (Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon)
  • Vice-President, Academic (Dr. Gage Averill)

Deans of Faculties

  • Dr. James Olson, Applied Science
  • Dr. Clare Crowston, Arts
  • Dr. Darren Dahl, Commerce and Business Administration
  • Dr. Andrea Esteves, Dentistry Pro Tem. 
  • Dr. Jan Hare, Education
  • Dr. Robert Kozak, Forestry
  • Dr. Shannon Hagerman, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Pro Tem.
  • Dr. David Kitts, Land and Food Systems Pro Tem.
  • Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, Medicine
  • Prof. Ngai Pindell, Peter A. Allard School of Law
  • Dr. Lalitha Raman-Wilms, Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Dr. Mark MacLachlan, Science

Chief Librarian

  • Dr. Susan Parker, University Librarian

Director of Continuing Education

  • Dr. Simon Bates, Professor of Teaching

Representatives of the Faculty of Applied Science 

  • ​Dr. Agnes d’Entremont, Associate Professor of Teaching
  • Dr. Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Arts

  • Dr. Marina Adshade, Assistant Professor of Teaching
  • Dr. C. W. Marshall, Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

  • Dr. Adlai Fisher, Professor
  • Dr. Kin Lo, Associate Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Dentistry

  • Dr. Nancy Ford, Associate Professor
  • Dr. Chris Overall, Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Education

  • Dr. Shannon Bredin, Associate Professor
  • Dr. Darren Warburton, Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Forestry

  • Dr. Julie Cool, Associate Professor
  • Dr. Chunping Dai, Associate Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

  • Dr. Steven Pelech, Professor
  • ​Dr. HsingChi von Bergmann, Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems

  • Dr. Anubhav Pratap-Singh, Associate Professor
  • Vacancy (1)

Representatives of the Allard School of Law

  • Dr. Brenna Bhandar, Associate Professor
  • Prof. James Stewart, Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Medicine

  • Dr. Bruce Forster, Professor
  • Dr. Wendy Norman, Professor

Representatives of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Dr. Fawziah Lalji, Professor
  • Dr. Ingrid Price, Associate Professor of Teaching

Representatives of the Faculty of Science

  • Dr. Sean W. Graham, Professor
  • Dr. Martin Hirst, Professor

Representatives of the Joint Faculties

  • Dr. Elisa Baniassad, Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Science
  • Dr. Ben Britton, Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Dr. Jacquelyn Cragg, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Dr. Peter Englezos, Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Dr. Susan Forwell, Professor, Faculty of Medicine
  • Dr. Joanne Fox, Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Science
  • Dr. André Ivanov, Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Dr. Emily Jenkins, Associate Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Dr. Siobhán McElduff, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr. Charles Menzies, Professor, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr. Laura Moss, Professor, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr. Santokh Singh, Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Science

Representatives of the Convocation

  • Dr. Francis Andrew
  • Dr. Lawrence Burr
  • Kevin Doering
  • Dr. Andrea Dulay
  • Dr. John Gilbert
  • Dr. Paul Harrison
  • Rob Kim
  • Stewart McGillivray
  • Dr. Jenny Phelps
  • Mitchell Prost
  • Dr. Richard Spencer
  • Dr. Austin Uzama

Elected Representative of the Professional Librarians

  • Mr. George Tsiakos, Head, Law Library

Representatives of Affiliated Colleges

  • Rev. Dr. Colin Godwin, Carey Theological College
  • Dr. Paul Spilsbury, President, Regent College
  • Dr. Gerry Turcotte, St. Mark’s College
  • Rev. Dr. Richard Topping, Principal, Vancouver School of Theology

Student Representatives

Terms are from April 1 to March 31 except for Education which is from October 1 to September 30. One representative elected from each Faculty, two from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and five members at-large.

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Applied Science

  • Taran Gill

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Arts

  • Jasper Lorien

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

  • Jacky Xue

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Dentistry

  • Brian Agafitei

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Education

  • Pratyaksha Awasthi

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Forestry

  • Dylan Evans

Representatives of the Students of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

  • Amin Adibi
  • Yi Chen

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems

  • Judy Xu

Representative of the Students of the Allard School of Law

  • Cade Desjarlais

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Medicine

  • Amy Wang

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Chaeyoung Lim

Representative of the Students of the Faculty of Science

  • Alex Chui

Representatives of the Students At-Large

  • Drédyn Fontana
  • Ananya Gupta
  • Kareem Hassib
  • Zarifa Nawar
  • Solomon Yi-Kieran

Secretary (Non-Member)

  • Dr. Rella Ng, Associate Vice-President, Enrolment Services and Registrar

Clerk (Non-Member)

  • Mr. Christopher Eaton, Associate Registrar & Director, Senate Office