Tim McTiernan

President and Vice-chancellor
University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Dr. Tim McTiernan was appointed president and vice-chancellor of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) on July 1, 2011. Dr. McTiernan has held numerous academic and leadership roles throughout Canada in the university, college and government sectors.

Dr. McTiernan has more than 25 years of senior-level leadership and administrative experience spanning the areas of innovation; research administration and commercialization; social and economic development; and post-secondary education. Dr. McTiernan has served as assistant vice-president, Government, Institutional and Community Relations; interim vice-president, Research; assistant vice-president, Research and executive director, The Innovations Group, University of Toronto; acting deputy minister, assistant deputy minister and chief operating officer, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation; president, Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology in North Bay, Ontario; and deputy minister, cabinet secretary and chief negotiator for Land Claims, Self-Government and Devolution, Yukon government.

Internationally he serves on the board of Atlantic Corridor – Ireland. Nationally he is a member of the Council of Canadian Academies’ Expert Panel on Science Performance and Research Funding, and the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) Advisory Board for the National Research Council. In addition, he serves on a number of boards, including Ontario Genomics Institute and the Yves Landry Foundation. He previously served on the founding board of MaRS Innovation, MaRS, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund Inc., the board of BioDiscovery Toronto, chaired the Committee of the Presidents of the Ontario Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (now Colleges Ontario) and was co-chair of the College-University Consortium Council. He has served as a trustee of the Ontario Innovation Trust, a member of the North Bay Economic Development Commission, a board member of Contact North – Canada’s largest distance education network, a member of the secretariat to the National Task Force on Environment and Economy, a founding member both of the Dispute Resolution Board established pursuant to the Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act and of the Environmental Impact Screening Committee established pursuant to the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act.

Dr. McTiernan has published on innovation, conservation, sustainable development and post-secondary education policy. He is a frequent conference presenter and panelist and has lectured for University of British Columbia.

From Kilkenny, Ireland, Dr. McTiernan earned his Bachelor of Arts (Mod) in Psychology and Philosophy (1973) from Trinity College in Dublin, and his Master of Arts degree (1977) and PhD (1982) in Psychology from the University of British Columbia.

August 2011