Board of Governors 2015/16 update

The University of Victoria Board of Governors is one of two primary governing bodies of the university (the other being the UVic Senate). The board is responsible for the management, administration and control of the property, revenue and business affairs of the university.

The board consists of the chancellor, the president, two elected faculty members, one elected staff member, two students elected from the university’s undergraduate or graduate student societies and eight members appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

New members who have joined the board for 2015-2016 include:

DAPHNE CORBETT

Order-in-council appointee

Daphne Corbett is an independent businessperson with over 20 years experience in the financial industry. From 1981 to 2003, Corbett worked in various senior and executive positions with HSBC Bank including head of audit Canada, head of audit Latin America with HSBC Brazil, senior vice-president BC Region, and senior vice-president and business manager wealth at Tax Advisory Services in San Francisco.  She served as a director of emergency communications for Southwest BC Incorporated for seven years and as its chair from 2008 to 2010.  She has been an independent director of Pulse Seismic Inc., a TSX-listed company, since June 2004 and is Chair of its Audit Committee. She was appointed to the board of the Royal BC Museum in July 2011 and chairs its finance committee.

CATHY WHITEHEAD McINTYRE

Order-in-council appointee

Cathy Whitehead McIntyre is Principal of Strategic Initiatives, a Victoria marketing research firm. Her background includes more than 25 years of sales, marketing and communications management experience, and more than 15 years of board service. A chartered director (CDir), Ms. McIntyre currently chairs the board of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation and serves on the boards of Peninsula Co-op and the Canadian Arthritis Society. She is a former director of the United Way of Greater Victoria, the United Way of Canada and the CMA Society of BC, among others. She is a past president of the UVic Alumni Association and recently completed a three-year term as a convocation senator on UVic’s academic Senate. She was acknowledged as one of UVic’s “50 Alumni Who Made a Difference” in 2013 and received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

BRONTË RENWICK-SHIELDS

Elected student member

Brontë Renwick-Shields is in her fourth year of a political science degree at UVic. She is currently serving as the chairperson of the UVSS. In her time at UVic she has been involved in the Colonial Legacies Field School in South Africa, spent a year studying abroad at the University of East Anglia and previously was the culture editor for the Martlet. Renwick-Shields is dedicated to student issues on and off campus including advocating for accessible post-Secondary education, mental health, sexualized and gender-based violence awareness and affordable housing for all students.