I am delighted to announce the appointment of Marie Carter-Dubois to my leadership team as Associate Vice Chancellor for Resource Administration in Academic Affairs, effective May 1, 2021.
As Associate Vice Chancellor for Resource Administration, Ms. Carter-Dubois will serve as the chief financial and administrative officer for Academic Affairs, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer, and will serve as a primary resource consultant for the EVC-AA reporting units, including VC-EDI and VC-Student Affairs. Additionally, she will be responsible for providing high-level strategic direction, leadership, and planning as well as management oversight across the Academic Affairs organization.
Ms. Carter-Dubois has more than twenty years of progressive experience in academic financial management, most recently at the University of Washington, where she serves as Senior Director of Business and Operations Management in the School of Medicine. In this strategic role, she has operational oversight for a large school with thirty-one clinical and basic science departments, 10,000+ faculty, 180 residency and clinical fellowships, a $1.5B budget, and affiliated institutions. She also oversees a number of central units including staff and academic HR and a growing shared services center. Her pivotal accomplishments at UW include leadership of a comprehensive reorganization to streamline business operations, which resulted in the development of a school-wide shared Services Center. She has also led department-wide Lean Six Sigma initiatives that have resulted in significant savings, shepherded efforts to enhance staff diversity, equity, and inclusion across the departments, and most recently led the operational effort of the school’s COVID-19 Back-to-Work readiness plan.
Prior to joining UW, Ms. Carter-Dubois spent four years at UC Davis where she served as Assistant Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff to the EVC and Provost, and previously as Associate Dean for Finance and Administration for the School of Education. She also garnered seven years of service as Director of Finance in the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco.
Ms. Carter-Dubois holds an MBA from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) in Paris; a Master in Corporate Strategy from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris; and a Master in Marketing and International Management from EDC Paris Business School.
I am deeply appreciative of the inclusive leadership of Sylvia Lepe-Askari, Assistant Vice Chancellor in the Campus Budget Office and Alison Sanders, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, who co-chaired the search advisory committee and ensured that all voices were heard throughout the selection process. I am also grateful to the members of the search advisory committee for their thoughtful contributions and insights, which have contributed to in a successful outcome.
Please join me in warmly welcoming Marie Carter-Dubois to UC San Diego. Her deep understanding of the strategic, financial, and administrative challenges facing academic institutions and her creative leadership approach will serve Academic Affairs and our university well. I would like to also extend my sincere appreciation to Steve Ross for his six years of outstanding leadership and partnership as AVC-RA and thirty-five years of valued service to our university. We all wish him the very best in his impending retirement.
