Professor Mariana Mota Prado was appointed as Vice-Provost, Strategic Enrolment Management (VPSEM), for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2026. Professor Prado was previously appointed as Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience (AVP/VP, ISE).

In the role of VPSEM, Professor Prado will be responsible for recruitment, admissions, registrarial and enrolment services, academic space management, and financial aid. Building on her many achievements as AVP/VP, ISE and collaborations on international recruitment initiatives, Professor Prado will bring valuable continuity and insight to this portfolio, further strengthening the University’s approach to recruitment and enrolment across all three campuses.

She is currently Professor and William C. Graham Chair in International Law and Development in the Faculty of Law at U of T, where she also served as Associate Dean, Graduate Program. Professor Prado’s scholarship focuses on law and development, corruption and comparative law, fields in which she has published extensively, with four co-authored books, as well as a number of book chapters and 34 journal articles in journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, Hague Journal of the Rule of Law, Transnational Legal Theory and the University of Toronto Law Journal.

Professor Prado was born and educated in Brazil (University of Sao Paulo Law School) and then completed a master’s and doctorate in law at Yale Law School.