Professor Mariana Mota Prado was appointed Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience beginning January 2025 for a five-year term. Professor Prado reports to both the Vice-President & Provost and to the Vice-President, International, and plays an integral role in furthering the strategic goals of both offices when it comes to matters related to international students as well as all students’ opportunities for international engagement. Professor Prado will provide academic leadership in the areas of learning abroad opportunities for students and oversight of the tri-campus Centre for International Experience (in collaboration with the Vice-Provost, Students).

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. 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.