Universities Canada, Canada. Sophie D’Amours, rector of Université Laval, became Chair of Universities Canada’s board of directors, succeeding outgoing board chair Mike Mahon, president of the University of Lethbridge. Sophie has extensive experience in higher education, research and university management, both in Quebec and internationally. An engineer, she was the Canada Research Chair in Planning Sustainable Forest Value Networks from 2009 to 2017 and has served as board chair of the Centre de recherche industrielle du Québec since 2010. She also contributes to the boards of the Société québécoise des infrastructures, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the International Development Research Centre and Fulbright Canada, among others. She was elected as the first-ever woman rector at Université Laval in 2017, following her post as vice-rector of research and innovation from 2012 to 2015 at the same university.