Allan Rock
President Emeritus and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Allan Rock is President Emeritus and a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
He practised for 20 years (1973-93) as a trial lawyer with a national law firm in Toronto, appearing as counsel in a wide variety of cases before courts at all levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Allan Rock was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1993, and re-elected in 1997 and 2000. He served for that decade as a senior minister in the government of Prime Minister Chrétien, in both social and economic portfolios. He was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1993-97), Minister of Health (1997-2002) and Minister of Industry and Infrastructure (2002-03).
He was appointed in 2003 as Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York during a period that involved responding to several complex regional conflicts. He led the successful Canadian effort in New York to secure unanimous adoption by UN member states of The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
In 2008, Allan Rock became the 29th President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, a comprehensive university of almost 50,000 students, faculty and staff. uOttawa is ranked among the Top Ten in Canada for research intensity, and is the largest bilingual university (French-English) in the world. He completed two terms as uOttawa President in 2016.
Most recently, Allan Rock was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, associated with the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict.
He is a member of the World Refugee and Migration Council and its Task Force Against Global Corruption.
He is married to Deborah Hanscom and they have four children.
Allan Rock is President Emeritus and a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
He practised for 20 years (1973-93) as a trial lawyer with a national law firm in Toronto, appearing as counsel in a wide variety of cases before courts at all levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Allan Rock was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1993, and re-elected in 1997 and 2000. He served for that decade as a senior minister in the government of Prime Minister Chrétien, in both social and economic portfolios. He was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1993-97), Minister of Health (1997-2002) and Minister of Industry and Infrastructure (2002-03).
He was appointed in 2003 as Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York during a period that involved responding to several complex regional conflicts. He led the successful Canadian effort in New York to secure unanimous adoption by UN member states of The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
In 2008, Allan Rock became the 29th President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, a comprehensive university of almost 50,000 students, faculty and staff. uOttawa is ranked among the Top Ten in Canada for research intensity, and is the largest bilingual university (French-English) in the world. He completed two terms as uOttawa President in 2016.
Most recently, Allan Rock was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, associated with the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict.
He is a member of the World Refugee and Migration Council and its Task Force Against Global Corruption.
He is married to Deborah Hanscom and they have four children.
