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Saini, Deep
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1955-
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Deep Sanai served as the twelfth president of Dalhousie University from 2020-2022. A career academic and accomplished researcher in plant biology, he was vice-chancellor and president of Australia's University of Canberra from 2016-2019. He grew up in India and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Physiology from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He taught at four of Canada’s U15 universities, was vice-president of the University of Toronto and principal of the university’s Mississauga campus, dean of the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, and director general of the Plant Biology Research Institute at the Université de Montréal. He began his term as the 18th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University on April 1, 2023.
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Dalhousie University. Office of the President (1838-)
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Dates of relationship
2020-2022
Description of relationship
Deep Saini was the twelfth president of Dalhousie University in 2020, serving until 2022.