From: Trevor Young, Vice-President & Provost
Joseph Wong, Vice-President, International
Date: October 29, 2024
Re: Appointment of Professor Mariana Mota Prado as Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience (PDAD&C #10)

We are delighted to announce that the appointment of Professor Mariana Mota Prado as Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience, has received the approval of the Executive Committee of Governing Council for a five-year term, beginning January 1, 2025.

The Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience (AVP-VP ISE) reports to both the Vice-President & Provost and to the Vice-President, International, and plays an integral role in furthering the strategic goals of both offices when it comes to matters related to international students as well as all students’ opportunities for international engagement.

As Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Professor Prado will provide academic leadership in the areas of learning abroad opportunities for students and oversight of the tri-campus Centre for International Experience (in collaboration with the Vice-Provost, Students). She will support divisional international engagement across all three campuses through the collaborative development of global opportunities for all University of Toronto students through curricular and co-curricular initiatives in U of T Faculties. She will also continue to foster a positive international student experience at University of Toronto, and pursue global partnership opportunities that support these goals. This appointment builds on Professor Prado’s collaborative and strategic leadership skills, as well as her passion for fostering global engagement opportunities for all students.

Mariana Mota Prado was born and educated in Brazil (LL.B., University of Sao Paulo Law School) and then completed a master’s and doctorate in law at Yale Law School. She is currently Professor and William C. Graham Chair in International Law and Development in the Faculty of Law, where she also served as Associate Dean, Graduate Program from May 2014 to December 2019. As Associate Dean, she had an opportunity to work directly with international masters and doctoral students. This understanding of the international student experience also built on her own experiences as an international student in the USA. Professor Prado has also served on the President’s International Council on Latin America and the Caribbean and has worked closely with the Office of the Vice-President, International.

Her scholarship focuses on law and development, corruption and comparative law, fields in which she has published extensively, with four co-authored books since 2011, as well as a number of book chapters and 34 journal articles in journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, Hague Journal of the Rule of Law, Transnational Legal Theory and the University of Toronto Law Journal, to name a few. Through Professor Prado’s teaching, scholarship and administrative work, she has demonstrated a continued commitment to creative problem solving, to meaningful student engagement, to diversity and to global engagement.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Prado to this role.