Professor Bruce Frayne will assume his new five-year term as dean of the Faculty of Environment on July 1.
Prior to his appointment, Frayne was a tenured, full professor in the University of Waterloo, serving a second term of his role as Director of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development within the Faculty of Environment.
James Rush, vice-president academic at Waterloo, said that Professor Frayne’s commitments to sustainability, social justice and interdisciplinarity, as well as internationalization through transformative scholarship, scholarship, and service, resonates with both the Faculty and University Strategic Plans. He has more then a decade of teaching, research and administrative leadership experience within Faculty and more than 20 years of experience outside of academy leading large multi-country multistakeholder research or policy networks. He is well-positioned for the Faculty of Environment.
Professor Bruce Frayne
Frayne is a senior member of university administration and a geographer. He holds a Bachelor of Art from the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from University of Cape Town, both in South Africa and a PhD on Geography from Queens University in Canada.
Frayne began his career as an assistant professor at Queens University. He then joined the University of Waterloo, becoming a full professor in 2010. His research interests are in the broad area of sustainable cities and include the three related areas: human migration, urbanization and food security.
Frayne is also the leader of the Sustainable Development Goals Canada Cities Index project. He was a member of Waterloo Senate from 2012 to 2014. He also served on several other bodies at the university, Faculty and unit levels.
Jean Andrey, a professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management (GEM), has been the dean since 2014. Frayne succeeds Frayne.
Faculty of Environment houses approximately 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in five units. Department of Geography & Environmental Management (GEM)The Department of Knowledge Integration (KI).The School of Environment, Enterprise and DevelopmentThe School of Environment, Resources and SustainabilityThe School of Planning.
