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

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

Headshot of Judith Chadwick

Judith Chadwick

Program Director
Assistant Vice-President, Research Services

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