Meet the Vice-President, People, Finance & Digital Services
Kenneth Corts
Professor Kenneth S. Corts became the inaugural Vice-President, People, Finance & Digital Services (PFDS) at the University of Toronto on July 1, 2026.
As VP, PFDS, he leads core administrative functions that support the University’s success and impact all members of the U of T community: finance, information technology and security, human resources, and labour relations with unions and non-represented employee groups.
Prior to his appointment as VP, PFDS, Professor Corts held several leadership positions at the University of Toronto, including Acting Vice-President, Operations and Acting Vice-Provost, Academic Operations; Academic Lead of Policy and Sustainable Finance at the Lawson Climate Institute; and Interim Dean at the Rotman School of Management, where he serves as a professor of Economic Analysis and Policy and holds the Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship. His research in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy, organizational economics, and energy policy has earned recognition from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and led to visiting appointments at leading universities in the US and Europe. From 2005 to 2010, he served as Editor at the internationally recognized Journal of Industrial Economics.