Meet the Vice-President, People, Finance & Digital Services
Kenneth Corts
Professor Kenneth S. Corts was appointed the Vice-President, People, Finance & Digital Services at the University of Toronto, effective July 1, 2026. In his role as Vice-President, he is responsible for the core administrative functions of human resources, labour relations, finance, and information technology and security to better support academic units and divisions since July 2026.
Professor Corts is a professor in the Economic Analysis and Policy area and holds the Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School.
He has more than two decades of experience at U of T, serving in academic leadership positions such as Interim Dean at Rotman, Acting Vice-President, University Operations, and Acting Vice-Provost, Academic Operations. His previous roles provided opportunities to build relationships across divisions, including during his tenure as Director of Rotman Commerce (jointly administered by Rotman and the Faculty of Arts & Science) and as Academic Lead of Policy and Sustainable Finance at the Lawson Climate Institute.
Professor Corts has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles, INSEAD, the University of California, Berkeley, and IESE Business School. Before joining the Rotman School, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Competition and Strategy area at Harvard Business School. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University.
Professor Corts is a microeconomist with research and teaching interests in industrial organization, competition policy, organizational economics, and energy policy; he has published his research in leading academic journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics. Professor Corts has also published a number of Harvard Business School case studies that are used at top business schools throughout the world, served as Editor at the Journal of Industrial Economics from 2005-2010, and won grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition to his academic contributions, Professor Corts has provided expert testimony in competition policy cases before the Competition Tribunal and the Ontario Superior Court, co-authored a policy analysis paper for the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom, and consulted on antitrust matters in the United States.