Stephen Toope

As of 2018, Toope has been living in Cambridge with his wife, Paula Rosen, a speech-language pathologist and musical theatre composer. They have three adult children.

He was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015. and, on 1 October 2017, he became the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom..

He is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge since 2017, the first Canadian to occupy this prestigious post. He is concurrently Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, a Professorial Fellow of Clare Hall, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College.

In January 2015, Toope became the Director of the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs.

In 2006, Toope became the 12th president and vice-chancellor of the University of British Columbia succeeding Martha Piper. He also held an academic position at the university as a tenured professor of law. He assumed the presidential post on July 1, 2006, and held the position for eight years, until June 30, 2014. On April 3, 2013, it was announced that Toope would leave the UBC presidency effective June 2014 to "pursue academic and professional interests in international law and international relations".

Toope then headed the Trudeau Foundation, named in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The Foundation is an independent, private, and non-partisan Canadian educational foundation that focuses on identifying outstanding talent in the social sciences and humanities, thereby building a network to promote public debate on issues of societal importance. The Foundation awards five fellowships and 15 doctoral candidate scholarships annually to recognize outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences that exemplify innovative public policy approaches and a commitment to public engagement. Established in 2002, the Foundation manages an endowment of more than C$140 million.

He served as dean of McGill University Faculty of Law from 1994 to 1999. He is the youngest person to have held the position. During his tenure as dean, he led the then-largest capital campaign in Canadian law faculty history to build a new Law library, and oversaw the renewal of the faculty's curriculum.

He has also conducted various human rights seminars for government officials in Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and was a member of the UN observer delegation to the first post-apartheid South African elections. He has also served as Research Director, Office of the Special Representative concerning the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People in 1991.

Toope graduated from Harvard University in 1979 with a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and European History. He then received two law degrees from McGill University in 1983, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal. In 1987, he finished his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Stephen John Toope OC (born February 14, 1958) is a Canadian legal scholar, academic administrator and a scholar specializing in human rights, public international law and international relations.