Professor Leah Cowen sitting speaking at a board room table to large crowd.

Leadership

The Connaught Fund is managed by a committee made up of members of the university’s governing council, senior administrators and other representatives of the university community.


 

Professor Leah Cowen

Committee Chair
Vice-President, Research & Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives.

 

Professor Joshua Barker

Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Vice-Provost, Research & Education

 

Professor Barbara Fallon

Senior Administration Representative
Associate Vice-President, Research

 

Professor France Gagnon

Senior Administration Representative
Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, UTM

 

Michael Gervers

Humanities Representative
Department of Historical and Cultural Studies

 

Professor Renée Hložek

Physical Sciences Representative
David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics

 

Professor Trevor F. Moraes

Life Sciences Representative
Department of Biochemistry

 

Professor Creso Sá

Social Sciences Representative
Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education

 

Myrtede Alfred

University Research Community Representative
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

 

Randy Boyagoda

University Research Community Representative
Director, Jackman Humanities Institute
Department of English

Connaught Review College

The Connaught Secretariat thanks the following individuals who are serving on the Connaught Review College in the 2025-26 academic year.

Membership of Connaught Disciplinary Panels

Humanities

  • Maya Harakawa, Art History
  • Lyn Tieu, French
  • Claire Battershill, Faculty of Information
  • William Paris, Philosophy

Physical Sciences & Engineering

  • Oya Mercan, Civil & Mineral Engineering
  • Angela Demke Brown, Computer Science
  • Marney Isaac, Physical & Environmental Sciences (UTSC)
  • Ziqing Hong, Physics
  • Kevin Golovin, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
  • Fae Azhari, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
  • Ting Li, Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Aaron Wheeler, Chemistry
  • Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, Health and Society (UTSC)
  • Jun Park, Statistical Sciences
  • Benjamin Landon, Mathematics
  • Emma Master, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Life Sciences

  • Kozeta Miliku, Nutritional Sciences
  • Qian Lin, Cell & Systems Biology
  • Cassidy D'Aloia, Biology (UTM)
  • John Calarco, Cell & Systems Biology
  • Belinda Chang, Cell & Systems Biology
  • Melissa Holmes, Psychology (UTM)
  • Aereas Aung, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
  • Lindsay Jibb, Faculty of Nursing
  • Tijana Simic, Speech-Language Pathology
  • Ina Anreiter, Biological Sciences, (UTSC)

Social Sciences

  • Hilary Brown, Health & Society (UTSC)
  • Francine Menashy, Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
  • Farzaneh Hemmasi, Faculty of Music
  • Carmen Logie, Faculty of Social Work
  • Daniel Silver, Sociology (UTSC)
  • Sumayya Kassamali, Anthropology
  • Kyle Ganson, Faculty of Social Work
  • Laura Doering, Rotman School of Management
  • Bing Han, Rotman School of Management

Connaught Secretariat

 

Kristina Öhrvall

Program Director
Assistant Vice-President, Research Services

Jeremy Knight, Director, Research Development
Michael Hussey, Research Funding Manager, Internal Programs
Penny Pong, Research Funding Officer