dominic giroux is laurentian universitys ninth president and vicechancellor since april 1 2009 in 2011 he received one of canadas top 40 under 40 awards and was named the 2010 education personality of the year by radiocanadale droit under his leadership laurentian secured funding for the construction of the vale living with lakes centre approval and funding for the launch of the northern ontario school of architecture the first school of architecture in canada in over 40 years to be located in downtown sudbury a 10 million naming gift from stan bharti for the school of engineering as well as a 14 million matching pledge from the city of barrie for laurentians proposed downtown barrie campus the university appointed in 2010 its firstever chancellor aline chrtien established in 2011 a new school of mines opened in 2012 a new 236bed student residence on its sudbury campus and launched a new 20122017 strategic plan giroux started in education as a school board trustee at 19 and board chair at 21 in ottawa prior to his appointment at laurentian in 2009 mr giroux was assistant deputy minister with the ontario ministry of education and the ministry of training colleges and universities after having served as cfo of two french language school boards in southern and eastern ontariogiroux was appointed in june 2011 as one of four members of the commission on the reform of ontarios public services chaired by don drummond which was tasked to recommend to the government how to deliver the most efficient public services possible drummond report he also served as cospecial advisor on the implementation of a northern policy institute and was appointed to the northern ontario ring of fire advisory councilgiroux serves as chair of the board of directors of the northern ontario school of medicine national cochair of the consortium national de formation en sant cnfs cochair of the ontario council on articulation and transfer oncat and board member of the centre for excellence in mining innovation cemi the greater sudbury development corporation gsdc and the banque daliments sudbury food bank he is a former vice chair of the association des universits de la francophonie canadienne aufc and the ottawa chapter of the francophone assembly of ontario and former board member of the canadian education association cea the education quality and accountability office eqao and montfort hospital in ottawaa member of the ontario college of teachers giroux holds bachelors degrees in social sciences and education from the university of ottawa as well as an mba from hec montral the university of ottawa gave him the leadership in education award in 2007 while hec gave him a talented young manager award in the large business category in 2008