Biography - Emőke J.E. Szathmáry

Emőke J. E. Szathmáry, CM, OM, FRSC, was the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba from 1996 to 2008. Dr. Szathmáry was trained as a physical anthropologist, specializing in the study of human population genetics, and received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. She held her first administrative post as chairman of the department of anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., a position she left to become Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Western University. She returned to McMaster in 1994 to serve as Provost and Vice-President (Academic).

Emőke J. E. Szathmáry was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2003 and in 2004, she was named one of Canada’s top 100 most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network and the Richard Ivey School of Business. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2009, she received the Order of Manitoba. Dr. Szathmáry was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the American Anthropological Association in 1998 — the highest recognition given by the anthropological discipline for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship.