13 Facts About Deborah MacLatchy

Deborah Lynn MacLatchy was born on 1964 and is a Canadian ecotoxicologist and comparative endocrinologist.

Deborah MacLatchy is the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University, having formally led the International Office at the University of New Brunswick.

Deborah MacLatchy served as President and Council Member of the Canadian Society of Zoologists and Chair of the Science Directors of the Canadian Rivers Institute.

In 2012, MacLatchy was recognized as one of Canada's Most Powerful Women in a Top 100 list compiled by the Women's Executive Network.

Deborah MacLatchy was born in 1964, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, to parents Cyrus and Ann.

Deborah MacLatchy's father was a physics professor at Acadia University and her mother was a special education teacher.

Deborah MacLatchy focused on the minutiae of physical mechanisms, specifically, how thyroid hormones work in fish.

Deborah MacLatchy later listed her undergraduate and doctoral professors as personal heroes or mentors during her scientific career, including Dan Toews, Geoff Eales, and Glen Van Der Kraak.

Deborah MacLatchy eventually left UNB to become dean of the Faculty of Science at Wilfrid Laurier University for a five-year term starting in 2007.

Deborah MacLatchy continued her ecology work started with the CRI at WLU and worked with fellow professors to identify endocrine disrupting substances contaminating watersheds and investigate the impact of environmental EDSs on hormonal systems in fish.

In 2012, Deborah MacLatchy was recognized as one of Canada's Most Powerful Women in a Top 100 list compiled by the Women's Executive Network.

On July 1,2017, Deborah MacLatchy succeeded Max Blouw as the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University.

In 2019, Deborah MacLatchy was appointed to serve as Co-Chair of the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer.