Glenn Craney

Glenn Craney is Vice-President & Head of Trent University Durham GTA, where he leads the campus’s growth, strategic development, and community engagement initiatives. 

With more than 25 years of experience across higher education and the public sector, Glenn has held senior leadership roles as Vice-President, Planning & Strategy at Humber Polytechnic, Deputy Provost and Chief Strategy Officer at Toronto Metropolitan University, Assistant Deputy Minister with Ontario’s Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, and founding Executive Director of the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT). 

Throughout his career, Glenn has led transformative initiatives in institutional planning, enrolment management, government relations, and strategic partnerships, including helping to advance TMU’s Brampton strategy and the development of the first new medical school in the Greater Toronto Area in more than a century. Passionate about innovation in higher education, he brings a leadership perspective on organizational transformation, emerging technologies, and the opportunities and challenges artificial intelligence presents for postsecondary institutions and the communities they serve. 

Glenn holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics from Western University and the University of Toronto.