Lisa Philipps is the provost and vice-president academic of

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. Phillips studied law at the University of Toronto, where she got her LLB, and subsequently at York University, where she received her LLM. She was called to the bar in Ontario in 1988. She practiced with Blake, Cassels & Graydon before entering academia. Phillips became a professor at

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in 1996. Her research included criticism of governments that pursue balanced budgets. In 2015 she served for a year as interim dean of the

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. In 2017 Phillips was appointed as interim provost for one year. During that year she played a public role in the 2018 York University strike of contract faculty. In 2018 she was appointed to a five-year term.

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