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Hargurdeep Saini was previously the President and Vice-Chancellor of [[Dalhousie University]],<ref name="dal.ca">{{Cite web |title=Important announcement regarding President Deep Saini |url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/11/14/announcement.html |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=Dalhousie News |language=en}}</ref> a [[Vice-Chancellor]] and President of [[University of Canberra]], a vice-president of [[University of Toronto]], and principal of the university's Mississauga campus, and dean of the Faculty of Environment at the [[University of Waterloo]] in [[Waterloo, Ontario]].<ref name="Times of India">{{cite news|url=http://twocircles.net/2010jan22/indo_canadian_gets_top_post_canadas_top_university.html|title=Indo-Canadian gets top post in Canada's top university|last=Singh|first=Gurmukh|date=22 January 2010|access-date=30 December 2018|publisher=IANS|via=TwoCircles.net}}</ref><ref name="UoT">{{cite web|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2010/21/c3105.html|title=UofT appoints new Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto Mississauga|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref> Saini became a noted plant physiologist<ref name ="Sparks">Advances in Agronomy, pp ix, Volume 68 By Donald L. Sparks, San Diego [etc.] : Academic Press, cop. 2000.</ref><ref>Bulletin - American Society of Plant Physiologists, Issue 52, Bethesda, Md. [etc.] American Society of Plant Physiologists.</ref> and served as director general of the Plant Biology Research Institute in Montreal before moving into university administration.<ref name="dal">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2019/05/16/introducing-dalhousie-s-12th-president.html|title=Introducing Deep Saini, Dalhousie's 12th president|website=Dalhousie News|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>   

On 14 November 2022, it was announced that Deep Saini will step down from his role as president of Dalhousie, effective 31 December 2022,<ref name="dal.ca"/> to become Principal and Vice-Chancellor of [[McGill University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/11/14/announcement.html |title=Important announcement regarding President Deep Saini}}</ref>