With an international 30+ year career in post-secondary education administration, Joanne Shoveller will lead as IBU's President and Vice-Chancellor effective January 1, 2022.
International Business University (IBU) is pleased to announce the appointment of Joanne Shoveller as President and Vice-Chancellor effective January 1, 2022. Ms. Shoveller is a well-regarded, seasoned leader who brings more than 30 years of domestic and international experience in post-secondary education administration to Canada's newest private, not-for-profit university.
We're building IBU to be a leader in personalized education at home and abroad. Top talent and visionary leaders like Joanne will be the foundation of that success, said Dr. Serdar Mutlu, founder, IBU. We are thrilled to have Joanne join as our President and Vice-Chancellor. Her strategic thinking, global mind-set and collaborative approach are exactly what we need to grow the kind of strong, student-centric, globally focused centre for academic excellence that is our vision for IBU.
Ms. Shoveller joins IBU from the University of Waterloo, where she has served as Vice-President of Advancement since 2017. Having spent most of her career focused on building strong, responsive institutions she has held progressive roles in Part-Time and Continuing Education, University Advancement, and the Ivey Business School at Western University. In 1997 she was assigned to Hong Kong to help found Ivey's Asian campus and then went on to assume the leadership of the Ivey MBA program until 2004. Ms. Shoveller has also led the advancement teams at the University of Guelph (2004-2012) and INSEAD Business School in France (2012-2016).
I'm thrilled to be joining IBU, an institution that doesn't just talk about putting its students first but is deeply committed to their individual success and is ready to address students that could otherwise be left behind, said Shoveller. If we have a talent shortage, particularly in diverse sectors, we can't address it if we only focus on those students that are destined for public institutions. We need to dive into the next layer, identify the gems, the unexpected leaders, and focus on the support we can offer to unpack their potential. That's what I love to do and that's what IBU is going to deliver.
Receiving Ministerial consent in 2020, IBU is Canada's newest not for profit, private university. Welcoming its first cohort to its campus in downtown Toronto in the fall of 2021, IBU offers a personalised, inclusive, student experience, high academic integrity and a curriculum and teaching approach that are in tune with the needs of today's economy so that graduates will be job ready on day one. IBU exists to build an expanded, diverse, domestic, and international talent pipeline that's equipped with the technical, management, and emotional skills needed to meet evolving employer demands.
