Office of the President
Vice-Presidents
Dr. Maureen Mancuso is Provost and Vice-President (Academic). She has also served as Associate Vice-President (Academic) and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from McMaster University, her M.A. with distinction from Carleton University, and her D.Phil. from Nuffield College, Oxford University, where she was a British Council Fellow. Her main research interests include
political ethics and political corruption, comparative political
institutions, legislative behaviour, and American politics. She
has served as consultant to the Canadian House of Commons on legislative
codes of conduct and conflict of interest legislation, and has
appeared on national and local news broadcasts to discuss matters
of political ethics. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Parliamentary
Affairs, Legislative Studies Quarterly , The
Canadian Review of American Studies and the Canadian
Journal of Political Science . Her books include The Ethical
World of British MPs (McGill-Queen's, 1995) and A Question
of Ethics: Canadians Speak Out (Oxford, 1998). She has continued
to teach while holding administrative positions and has received
a University of Guelph College of Social Science Teaching Award
in 1996, and has twice been named as one of Guelph's “Popular
Professors” by the annual Maclean's Magazine Guide to Universities.
Dr. Kevin Hall is Vice President (Research) with responsibilities for the University’s diverse and comprehensive research enterprise and acts as the University’s chief research officer. His office is the institutional nerve centre for the University’s research. It provides and promotes leadership and initiative, service, policy development, resource generation and an external profile and awareness consistent with the goal of being Canada's leading research intensive university. One of the office’s major responsibilities is research integrity and compliance. It serves a central role in research relationships with the federal government, industry, foundations, international sponsors and, increasingly, alumni. The office facilitates research that crosses traditional boundaries between the sciences and the humanities, to offer experiential learning opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students.
Don O'Leary, Vice-President Finance and Administration oversees diverse services supporting teaching, research and service, including financial services, human resources, campus community police, fire prevention and parking services, environmental health and safety, investment management, and the real estate division. He chairs the Council of Senior Administrative Officers (an affiliate of the Council of Ontario Universities) and is vice-chair of the Canadian University Reciprocal Insurance Exchange.
Previous to his work with U of G, he was Vice-President Finance and Administration for Trent University. Earlier, as commissioner of corporate services for the City of Oshawa for 10 years, O'Leary oversaw numerous departments, including human resources, fire, real estate, legal, secretariat services and economic development. Previously, he was director of economic development for the City of Saint John, N.B., and vice-president at Continental PIR Communications. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick.
Joanne Shoveller joined the University of Guelph as Vice-President (Alumni Affairs and Development) in August 2004, with responsibility for all institutional advancement activities including fund-raising, alumni relations and friend-raising activities to advance the academic mission of the institution. Prior to joining the University of Guelph, she spent 17 years at The University of Western Ontario in marketing, communications, alumni and corporate development and graduate program management. During her tenure at UWO, she initiated the University’s outreach to Asian alumni, had a leadership role in the planning and implementation of the Ivey Campaign, and, while living in Hong Kong, helped to establish Ivey’s Hong Kong campus, the Ivey Asia Advisory Board, the Asian Campaign Steering Committee, and the Hong Kong and Singapore alumni chapters. On her return to Canada, she held dual roles as Director of Alumni and Corporate Development and Director of Asian Development, then was appointed Director of Ivey’s MBA Program Office in 2001. She has made presentations and written articles on global student recruiting, alumni and fundraising to several organizations including the National Association of Asian American Professionals, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. Joanne has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Masters in Business Administration from UWO’s Ivey Business School.