Who is TMU’s first female president and vice-chancellor?

Scholar and educator Dr. Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano will be the 10th person to fill the role of TMU president, and the first woman.

Toronto Metropolitan University has announced who will be the next person to take on the role as its president and vice chancellor.

Scholar and educator Dr. Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano will be the 10^th person to fill the title and the first woman.

Having worked in academia for 20 years, Iannacito-Provenzano started at TMU in 2020 as vice-provost, faculty affairs, before being appointed to interim provost and vice-president, academic, in 2022.

Since 2023, she’s worked as the school’s provost and vice president, academic.

“This is a university with a clear sense of purpose and momentum, and I am truly honoured and excited to serve as TMU’s next president, to continue to build on that strength together,” she said in a release.

Some of her duties include advancing “academic excellence while deepening TMU’s impact locally and globally,” the release read.

Iannacito-Provenzano will begin her new role in January 2027. She will succeed Mohamed Lachemi who has held the role since 2016.

Her appointment was approved by the university’s Board of Governors on Wednesday “following a rigorous and highly deliberative presidential search,” TMU said.