Michael Stevenson

Michael Stevenson
President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University
Term	2000 – 2010
Predecessor	Jack P. Blaney
Successor	Andrew Petter
Born	1953 South Africa
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand Northwestern University
Profession	Author, Professor
Spouse	Jan Whitford

Michael Stevenson is the former President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University. He retired on August 31, 2010, and was subsequently succeeded by Andrew Petter on September 1, 2010. Michael Stevenson has had one of the longest appointments as President of Simon Fraser University, spanning over one decade.

Education

Michael Stevenson completed his undergraduate education in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He then had subsequent graduate work in the United States with a PhD from Northwestern University. He was awarded the top graduate student fellowship, a national Bobbs-Merrill Prize for graduate studies in political science. He later was awarded a post-doctoral Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for teaching and research in Nigeria.

Career

Prior to his appointment as President of Simon Fraser University, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and as Vice-President Academic and Provost at York University. He is currently Chair of the British Columbia Council for International Education, and Chair of the Council of Western Canadian University Presidents. Additionally, he served on the Board of the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), as Chair of the University Presidents’ Council of British Columbia, Chair of the Standing Committee on Educational Issues and Funding of the Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada, and as a Director on the Vancouver Board of Trade and the BC Business Council. He also serves on the Board of Genome BC.

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Academic offices
Preceded by Jack P. Blaney	President of Simon Fraser University December 1, 2000 - August 30th, 2010	Succeeded by Andrew Petter