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Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard
11th President of the University of Western Ontario
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 July 2019
Chancellor	Kelly Meighen
Preceded by	Amit Chakma
4th President of the Concordia University
	In office; 1 August 2012 – 30 June 2019
Chancellor	L. Jacques Ménard; Jonathan Wener
Preceded by	Judith Woodsworth; Frederick Lowy (interim)
Succeeded by	Graham Carr
Personal details
Born	c.1962 (age 62–63); Iowa, U.S.
Citizenship	Canadian, American
Education	St. Olaf College (BA); University of Virginia (PhD)
Occupation	University academic and administrator
Academic background
Thesis	Marlowe's anatomy of desire (1990)
Academic work
Discipline	English literature
Sub-discipline	Early Modern English literature
Institutions	Texas Christian University; University of Guelph; Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University); Concordia University; University of Western Ontario;

Alan Shepard (born c. 1962)^[1] is an American-Canadian academic and the current and 11th president and vice-chancellor of Western University in London, Ontario, effective July 2019. He previously served as the president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal.

Early life and education

Shepard was born in Iowa, and is a dual citizen of both Canada and the United States.^[2] He has a background in Early Modern English literature. He received a B.A. in English literature from St. Olaf College in 1983^[3] and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1990.^[2]^[4]

Career

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]