Dr. J. Colin Dodds is President of Saint Mary’s University and Professor of Finance in the AACSB accredited Sobey School of Business.
Educated in the U.K. with a B.A., B.Sc., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees, and inducted as an Associate alumnus of Saint Mary’s in 1995, Dodds has taught at many universities in the U.K. (Sheffield, Birmingham and Hull – with extension programmes in the UAE, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia), through CIDA and the World Bank in Asia (Thailand and China) 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 2000. Dodds is Chair of the Association of Atlantic Universities and immediate Past-Chair of the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents and the Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust Fund. He is member of many professional associations including the British Institute of Management.
Dodds is very active in a range of local, national and international organizations. He is past Chair of the Board of the Canadian Bureau of International Education (which manages a range of international development projects and scholarship programmes), past Chair of the Board of the Canadian Scholarship Trust (which manages assets in excess of $2.5billion), and is a member of the Board of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies—a public policy “think tank”, is a director and Vice Chair of the Greater Halifax Partnership and is a member both of the Premier’s Advisory Council for the Order of Nova Scotia and the Premier’s Economic Advisory Panel.