Dr. Amy Warren, Acting Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
The provost and vice-president (academic) is the chief academic officer of Memorial University, responsible for overseeing all academic matters and ensuring that the university’s planning and budgets align with Memorial’s academic and strategic priorities.
The provost reports directly to the president, is a voting member of the university’s Board of Regents, and is deputy chair of the university Senate.
The provost oversees the portfolio of the vice provost (equity, diversity, and inclusion), as well as the portfolios of the associate vice-presidents (academic) for students and graduate studies.
Dr. Amy Warren is acting provost and vice-president (academic) at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Amy Warren began her career at Memorial University more than 20 years ago. Dr. Warren is a proud alumnus of Memorial, where she completed her Bachelor of Commerce Co-operative degree, as well as her Master of Employment Relations (MER). Dr. Warren went on to study at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, where she obtained her PhD in Management in 2009. Dr. Warren became a full professor with the Faculty of Business at Memorial in 2024.
Dr. Warren conducts research in the areas of goal setting, retirement, bridge employment and employee mistreatment. She has held two SSHRC research grants at the principal investigator and she is currently a co-investigator on another SSHRC grant.
Dr. Warren was the Director of the MER program for three years and then during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she became the Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) at Memorial. In 2021, she was appointed Interim Associate Vice President Academic (AVPA) and Dean of the SGS. She held that appointment until December 2023, when she was successful in obtaining a formal 5-year appointment as the AVPA and Dean of the SGS.
Dr. Warren is passionate about serving students throughout their academic career at Memorial. She has particular interest in accessibility at Memorial and is the chair of the Accessibility Steering Committee. Dr. Warren has shared her lived experience as a disabled woman in many different venues. She wrote about her lived experience as a disabled woman in the context of work, and this was published as a first person essay in the Globe and Mail. Dr. Warren hopes her lived experience and her work on the Accessibility Steering Committee at Memorial will ultimately benefit students with disabilities who choose Memorial for their undergraduate or graduate degree(s).