President
Saint Mary's University
Colin Dodds is President of Saint Mary's University in Halifax. The University was founded in 1802 and enrolls upwards of 8,000 students each year. Educated in the U. K. with a B.A., B.Sc., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees, Dodds has taught at many universities in the U.K. (Sheffield, Birmingham and Hull), in Asia and in Canada (McMaster and Brock). He joined the faculty of the Sobey School of Business in September 1982, became Departmental Chair (Finance and Management Science) and M.B.A. Director in 1984, Dean of the Sobey School of Business in 1987 and Vice-President, Academic and Research in 1991. He assumed the Presidency in the year 2000.
Dodds is very active in a range of local, national and international organizations. He chairs the Board of the Canadian Bureau of International Education, and the Board of the Canadian Scholarship Trust; and is a member of the Board of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies—a public policy “think tank”. He has been named as one of Atlantic Canada’s Top 50 CEOs, and has received many other awards. He chaired the Nova Scotia Provincial Boundaries Commission and has acted as a consultant to business firms and other organizations. He is a regular commentator in the media and has published many books, journal articles and conference papers, particularly on financial markets, and he teaches international finance to graduate students at Saint Mary's University.
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