Pierre Zundel Dean of Renaissance College University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick

Pierre Zundel is the Dean of Renaissance College, UNB’s award-winning interdisciplinary leadership school. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Bachelors and Masters) and of the Université Laval (PhD) in forestry. He has taught forestry at both the Université de Moncton (UdeM) and the University of New Brunswick (UNB). From 2000-2005, He was Managing Editor of the International Journal of Forest Engineering. Since 2000 he has been teaching in the interdisciplinary leadership program at UNB’s Renaissance College. He has worked as both a professor and in academic leadership – as Chef de Secteur at UdeM (1988-91) and as Dean of Renaissance College at UNB since 2004.

Pierre was also the Chief of the Stanley Volunteer Fire Department. He provides advice and assistance to the Business Council of New Brunswick and is a member of the board of directors of the York North Veneer Products Inc. which has been restarting a wood veneer plant in Napadogan, NB. He was also an instructor in the Leadership Fredericton program, providing instruction in the area of organizational vision-setting.

His passion for teaching and learning was recognized when he was chosen as the first UNB University Teaching Professor in 2001. In the following year, he received the Atlantic Association of Universities Educational Leadership Award and in 2003 was made a 3M National Teaching Fellow. In 2006, he led a team at Renaissance College that received the STLHE’s national Alan K Blizzard Award for Collaborative Teaching.

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