Alan Shepard (academic)

Shepard served as the chair of the English department at Texas Christian University from 1998 to 2002.^[2] He moved to Canada in 2002, where he began working as a visiting research fellow at the University of Toronto.^[2]

Shepard was hired as an associate vice-president academic at University of Guelph in 2005.^[2] In 2007, Shepard became the provost and vice-president academic at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), where he worked until 2012.^[2] At Ryerson, Shepard led the development of a business incubator called the Digital Media Zone.^[5]

In August 2012, Shepard became the president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal.^[6][7] His two predecessors, Judith Woodsworth and Claude Lajeunesse, were both removed midway through their terms due to scandals.^[8][9]

In November 2018, Shepard announced he would be leaving Concordia on 30 June 2019 to become the president and vice-chancellor of Western University in London, Ontario.^[7][8] In July 2019, Shepard replaced Amit Chakma to become the 11th president of Western.^[5][10] In December 2022 he was reappointed to a second term as President.^[11]

Shepard has served on the board of directors at Universities Canada, Stratford Festival, and the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal.^[12] He is currently chair of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.^[4]

• Biography at Western University
• Biography at Concordia University Archived 18 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine