Dr Judith Woodsworth, has been appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University from August 1, 2008.
Dr Woodsworth, who had been on the faculty of Concordia between 1980 and 1997, will return from Laurentian University where she has served as President since 2002. Dr Woodsworth was born in Paris to Hungarian parents who left Hungary after the Second World War and then settled in Winnipeg where she grew up. She has a BA in French and Philosophy from McGill, a licence ès letters from the University of Strasbourg and a PhD in French literature from McGill. Between 1997 and 2002 she was Vice-President Academic at Mount St Vincent University in Halifax.
Dr Woodsworth is the third university president of Hungarian origin in Canada along with Dr Emoke Szathmáry of the University of Manitoba and Dr Gabor Csepregi of the Dominican University College of Canada.