Vivek Goel

Dr. Vivek Goel is President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Waterloo. He has held a number of senior leadership roles at the University of Toronto including as Vice-President and Provost and most recently as Vice-President Research and Innovation. He served as founding President and CEO of Public Health Ontario and also as a founding scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), where he continues as an Adjunct Senior Scientist. He has extensive experience in governance and currently is Chair of the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Goel obtained his medical degree from McGill University and completed post-graduate medical training in Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Goel obtained a master’s degree (MSc) in Community Health from U of T and a master’s degree (MS) in Biostatistics from Harvard University School of Public Health.