Donna Kotsopoulos is the Dean and a professor at the Faculty of Education. She is cross appointed to the The DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Faculty of Social Science. She is an extremely proud alum of this Faculty where she earned her doctorate in educational studies in 2007 and was the Governor General Gold Medalist. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher and has experience teaching and conducting research in both elementary and secondary schools. Her research explores mathematics learning across the lifespan as well as higher education – particularly strategic resource allocation, leadership, transnationalization/internationalization, and university governance. She has been funded by SSHRC, NSERC, and various other agencies. Her service, research, and teaching has been recognized with several awards, including the John and Gail MacNaughton Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2020), an OCUFA teaching award (2014), the Fields Institute Fellow (2017) through the esteemed Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. She serves on the Board of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and as the SSHRC Leader for Western University.