University News

Appointment of Ms Victoria Meikle as Bishop's University Secretary-General and Vice-Principal Government Relations and Planning

July 27, 2010

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Victoria Meikle as our Secretary-General and Vice-Principal Government Relations and Planning.

Victoria brings a great breadth of knowledge and experience to this new role. As Bishop’s institutes a new governance structure, intensifies its interactions with the three levels of government, and embarks on a strategic planning process, we will be well-served by Victoria’s many talents.

Victoria’s appointment is effective August 16th, 2010.

Michael Goldbloom
Principal & Vice-Chancellor

Victoria Meikle – brief professional biography

In October, 2004, Victoria Meikle joined the Office of the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University as Senior Policy Advisor to Principal Heather Munroe-Blum. Over the course of six years she assumed a variety of responsibilities, including the coordination of strategic and operational planning and liaison with the University’s senior administrative team, and the planning and implementation of special projects, among them two Principal’s Task Forces, on Student Life and Learning at McGill and on Diversity, Excellence and Community Engagement.

Working with the Principal and colleagues in Public Affairs and Planning and Institutional Analysis, Ms Meikle contributed to the development of McGill positions on a number of issues, particularly in the area of higher education policy in Quebec. She provided support for Principal Munroe-Blum in her roles on the McGill Senate and Board of Governors, as well as during her three-year mandate as President of CREPUQ.

Prior to joining the Office of the Principal, Ms Meikle spent over five years at McGill’s Faculty of Law, as Assistant Dean responsible for the admission of students and the placement of graduates. She has held the position of Conference Secretary with an intergovernmental organization, organizing and acting as secretary to the meetings of Ministers and senior officials that are the formal mechanism of ‘executive federalism’ in Canada. She has practised law, and carried out research in law and political theory as a graduate student.

Ms Meikle holds a Bachelor of Arts and an LL.B. from the University of Toronto and a Master ’s degree in Law from McGill University. She pursued her studies in Law at the doctoral level at the University of Oxford.

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