Paris All-Alumni Reception | Meet President Sylvestre

Join us in Paris for a special fireside chat with Marie-Eve Sylvestre, S.J.D., Ad.E. president and vice-chancellor of the University of Ottawa, in conversation with Nadia Petrolito (LLL ‘96), general counsel, Dermatological Beauty Division, L’Oréal. This will be an opportunity to meet the first woman to lead the University of Ottawa since its founding in 1848 and to learn about her vision for the future of the University.
 

Dr. Marie-Eve Sylvestre, S.J.D., Ad.E. has been president and vice-chancellor of the University of Ottawa since July 1, 2025. Prior to assuming this role, she was dean of the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law and co-chair of the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom. A distinguished interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Sylvestre’s research focuses on criminal law and practices that have a discriminatory impact on marginalized populations. Dr. Sylvestre is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a board member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She was awarded the distinction of Advocatus Emeritus by the Quebec Bar in 2022. She holds an LLB from the Université de Montréal, as well as an LLM and an SJD from Harvard Law School, where she was a Frank Knox Memorial Foundation fellow.