Glenn Craney, Chief Strategy Officer
In this new role, Glenn Craney will be responsible for knitting together the university’s strategic vision and five supporting plans into a single synthesized strategy across the institution. As chief strategy officer (CSO), Craney will oversee the university’s budget strategy to better position TMU to respond to changing social and economic landscapes.
Since joining the university in 2018, Craney has executed complex strategic plans to advance university priorities and has been a key member of the executive team. Craney’s duties to date as deputy provost, international and university planning, will be encompassed within his new role as the University Planning Office becomes part of the new CSO office.
Tanya (Toni) De Mello, Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion
As vice-president, equity and community inclusion, Toni De Mello will provide strategic leadership and direction to support the university’s goal to be a leader in equity, diversity and inclusion.
An accomplished human rights lawyer and mediator, De Mello is a leading expert and trainer on equity and inclusion in Canada. She holds a dual master’s degree in public policy and urban and regional planning from Princeton University; a master of education in counselling and psychotherapy from the University of Toronto, and two law degrees from McGill University’s Faculty of Law.
In 2020, she completed her PhD at the University of Toronto. Most recently, De Mello was assistant dean for student programming, development and equity at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at TMU.
