Mary Sansalone

Dr Mary J Sansalone was appointed Vice Provost South & Central Asia and Founding Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, in September 2013. In her role as Vice Provost, Mary serves as the senior academic representative of the Provost in Pakistan, overseeing the operations of the Office of the Provost there, leads the University’s collaboration with the Aga Khan Education Services, and oversees the operations of the AKU Examination Board. She also leads AKU’s academic activity in Afghanistan and Central Asia. As Founding Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS), Mary is the chief academic and administrative officer for all academic programs within the faculty on all AKU campuses and has responsibility for overseeing the development of the FAS in both Arusha, Tanzania, and Karachi, Pakistan, as well as the FAS component of the new Faculty of Health Sciences undergraduate program in Nairobi, Kenya. Mary Sansalone studied literature and engineering as an undergraduate. She received her MS and PhD in engineering from Cornell University (1984, 1986) and an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard University (1999). She joined the faculty of engineering at Cornell University in 1987, where she spent nearly twenty years on the faculty, before becoming Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis in 2006. In 2010 she became Provost and later Vice Chancellor of the Asian University for Women, a start-up liberal arts college in Chittagong, Bangladesh. 1981: BS Summa Cum Laude, Civil Engineering, University of Cincinnati 1984: MS Structural Engineering, Cornell University 1986: PhD Structural Engineering, Cornell University 1999: Masters in Public Administration, Kennedy School, Harvard University