Senate Membership (2024-2025)

The McGill Senate is composed of 111 voting members broadly representative of the University's constituencies (Faculty, Staff, Students, Administrators, Board Members and Alumni).

The 2024-2025 Senate membership is listed in the table below. Terms begin September 1st and end August 31st of the indicated year, unless otherwise specified. Student members' terms are for a single year.

(ex officio)
Chancellor Pierre Boivin
Chair of the Board of Governors Maryse Bertrand
President and Vice-Chancellor, Chair Deep Saini
Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) Christopher Manfredi
Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Angela Campbell (interim)
Vice-President (Administration and Finance) Fabrice Labeau
Vice-President (University Advancement) Marc Weinstein
Vice-President (Research and Innovation) Dominique Bérubé
Vice-President (Communications and Institutional Relations) Philippe Gervais
University Registrar & Executive Director, Enrolment Services Gillian Nycum 
Director, Teaching and Learning Services Laura Winer
(ex officio) Deans
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Valérie Orsat (acting)
Faculty of Arts Lisa Shapiro
School of Continuing Studies Carola Weil
Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences Elham Emami
Faculty of Education Vivek Venkatesh
Faculty of Engineering Viviane Yargeau
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Josephine Nalbantoglu
Faculty of Law Robert Leckey
Trenholme Dean of Libraries Guylaine Beaudry
Desautels Faculty of Management Yolande E. Chan
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Lesley Fellows
Schulich School of Music Sean Ferguson
Faculty of Science R. Bruce Lennox
Students TBD
Representatives of the Board of Governors
Manon Vennat (June 30, 2025)
Luciano D'Iorio (June 30, 2025)
Diletta Prando (June 30, 2026)
Elected Members
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Jennifer Ronholm (2025)
Petra Rohrbach (2025)
Mehran Dastmalchi (2027)
Faculty of Arts
Michael Fronda (2025)
Mary Hunter (2025)
Juliet Johnson (2025)
Thomas Soehl (2025)
Eran Shor (2026)
Catherine Lu (2026)
Tabitha Sparks (2026)
Manuel Balán (2026)
Denise Arista (2027)
Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (2027)
Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences Alissa Levine (2027)
Faculty of Education
Amir Kalan (2026) 
Tara Flanagan (2026)
Faculty of Engineering
Nathaniel Quitoriano (2025)
Jan Kopyscinski (2026)
Brett Meyer (2026)
Ipek Türeli (2026)
Samuel Huberman (2027)
Faculty of Law
Lara Khoury (2025)
Priya Gupta (2027)
Desautels Faculty of Management
Francesca Carrieri (2025)
Hamid Etemad (2027)
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Annmarie Adams (2026)
Eleanor Elstein (2026)
Maiya Rachel Geddes (2026)
Terry Hébert (2026)
Srinivasan Krishnamurthy (2026)
Momar Ndao (2026)
Michael Shevell (2026)
Ma'n Zawati (2026)
Edith Zorychta (2026)
Beth-Ann Cummings (2026)
Josée Bonneau (2027)
Raphael Lencucha (2027)
Nicole Li-Jessen (2027)
Schulich School of Music
Isabelle Demers (2027)
Ichiro Fujinaga (2027)
Faculty of Science
Anthony Mittermaier (2025) (interim Dean of Students)
Laura Nilson (2025)
Genevieve Ali (2026)
Peter Grütter (2026)
David Stephens (2026)
Alanna Watt (2026)
Jennifer Bartz (2027)
Mathieu Blanchette (2027)
Rustum Choksi (2027)
School of Continuing Studies
Margaret Levey (2027)
University Libraries
Svetlana Kochkina (2026)
David Greene (2027)
Marc Richard (2027)
Members-at-Large
Elizabeth Elbourne (2025)
Christa Scholtz (2027)
Noah Weisbord (2027)
Administrative and Support Staff
Group 1 Bonnie Borenstein (2025)
Krystle Van Hoof (2026)
Group 2 Darlene Hnatchuk (2025)
Cheryl Smeall (2026)
Group 3
Chidimi Abakar (2026)
Matthew Bacz (2027)
Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU)
SSMU President Dymetri Taylor
SSMU VP University Affairs Abe Berglas
Arts (1) Anzhu Wei
Arts (2) Vivian Wright
Arts and Science Nicholas Chow
Education Cole Gowdy
Engineering Michael Parsons
Law Steve Mansour
Management Mars Bitout
Medicine and Health Sciences Khaled Skaik
Music Seraphina Crema Black
Nursing Jacqueline Chow
Science Sofie Fournier
McGill Association of Continuing Education Students (MACES)
Katherine Joseph
Amine Arezki
Macdonald Campus Students' Association (MCSS)
Katie Chong
Post-Graduate Students' Society (PGSS)
PGSS Secretary-General Satish Kumar Tumulu
PGSS University Affairs Officer Racchana Ramamurthy
  Andrew Roth
  TBD
Postdoctoral Scholar Claire Adams
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