Harvey Weingarten

Harvey Weingarten
President of the University of Calgary
In office 1988–1997
Preceded by	Terry White
Succeeded by	M. Elizabeth Cannon
Personal details
Born	1952 or 1953 (age 71–72) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma mater	McGill University Yale University
Occupation	psychologist

Harvey Weingarten (born June 24 1952) is a Canadian academic. He served as president of the University of Calgary from 2001 to 2009. When he left the presidency the University Alumni magazine capsulized his contributions this way:

“Harvey Weingarten … left the university a far better place than when he arrived almost nine years before. Under his leadership, the university increased access, invested in students, recruited world-class faculty and attracted record amounts of research revenue and philanthropic support. There were so many so-turnings as a result of the billion-dollar capital growth plan he launched that he kept a shovel on hand in his office. A relentless agent of change, he pushed for excellence across campus. Throughout it all, he never lost sight of the goal: do what’s best for students.”

He was previously the provost and Vice-President Academic of McMaster University. He is a psychology and medical researcher, and alumnus of McGill University and Yale University. He was also a professor the McMaster's department of psychology and dean of the university's faculty of science. He was the first Jew to serve as President of the University of Calgary.

In 2010, Weingarten was appointed as President & CEO of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (www.heqco.ca), a crown agency of the province of Ontario with a legislated mandate to provide evidence-based advice and policy recommendations to the government to improve the access, quality and accountability of its public postsecondary system.