Concordia names Faye Diamantoudi as provost

Concordia University has appointed Effrosyni ‘Faye’ Diamantoudi, a Greek-born economist and long-standing administrator, arsenic provost and vice-president.

Her five-year term began connected 1 May 2026, pursuing support by Concordia’s Board of Governors. She had antecedently held the relation connected an interim ground since September.

Her assignment comes astatine a clip of fiscal pressure, enrolment uncertainty, and organization restructuring. 

The provost’s bureau sits astatine the centre of Concordia’s world machinery, overseeing programme planning, module priorities, postgraduate education, world operations, and — according to Concordia — caller work related to diversifying university revenue. The university has stated that it is dealing with a two-year frost connected operating grants successful Quebec, a higher clawback connected planetary tuition gross and a projected shortage for 2025-26, which is aligned with a betterment program pursuing large fund adjustments.

Diamantoudi’s assignment besides signals a penchant for interior continuity. She joined Concordia successful 2003 arsenic an adjunct prof of economics, becoming a afloat prof successful 2015. Prior to becoming provost, she served arsenic dean of postgraduate studies, interim vice-president of probe and postgraduate studies, subordinate dean of recruitment and awards successful the School of Graduate Studies, and postgraduate programme manager successful economics.

While not providing a nonstop explanation, her world work gives the assignment further resonance, arsenic overmuch of her probe concerns cooperation, conjugation stability and biology agreements. Concordia lists her fields arsenic economical theory and crippled theory, with probe interests including conjugation formation, foresight, cartel stability, and planetary biology agreements.

The university has framed her caller grounds astir postgraduate maturation and operational modernisation. In 2023, aft three years successful the interim role, she was named dean of postgraduate studies. Concordia credited her with reforms to tuition billing for course-based postgraduate programmes, an enrolment absorption strategy, a program to waive planetary fees for doctoral students, and the instauration of PhD Career Connect, a nonrecreational skills programme for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and caller graduates.

President and Vice-Chancellor Graham Carr described the assignment successful strategic terms, stating that Concordia required a main world serviceman susceptible of starring “transformative change”. In the university announcement, Diamantoudi formed her task arsenic bridging ‘the spread betwixt aspiration and implementation’, while acknowledging that Concordia stands astatine ‘a challenging crossroads’.

Her scope extends beyond Concordia. She is listed arsenic president of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and treasurer of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies. She is besides a subordinate of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, arsenic well arsenic being a CIRANO researcher and chap since 2016.

Originally from Greece, Diamantoudi came to Canada arsenic an planetary student, earning an undergraduate grade from the University of Ottawa and postgraduate degrees successful economics from McGill University. Her travel from planetary student to elder world serviceman intersects with 1 of Concordia’s astir pressing organization questions.