Daniel Woolf
Daniel Woolf | |
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Daniel Woolf speaking at a Queen's University event in Hong Kong in 2018 | |
| 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University | |
| In office 1 September 2009 – 30 June 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas R. Williams |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Deane |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Daniel Robert Woolf 5 December 1958 London, England |
| Spouse | Julie Gordon-Woolf |
| Children | Sarah, Samuel and David |
| Education | Queen's University at Kingston (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Daniel Robert Woolf FRHistS FSA FRSC (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus.