Ron Daniels, Dean of the Faculty of Law and the James M. Tory Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, has been named Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

Back in February Daniels was tapped by the Ontario government to head a committee to design a possible model for a single national securities regulator. The committee was to have delivered its report by the end of June, although it has yet to name the other members of the committee, or its terms of reference.

Daniels also chaired the Provincial Government Panel on the Future of Government (2004), acted as special advisor to the Ontario government on Reform of Public Accounting Regulation (2003), chaired the Ontario Electricity Market Design Committee (1998-99), chaired the Ontario Task Force on Securities Regulation (1994) and was a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance (1994). Daniels is past-President of the Council of Canadian Law Deans and of the Council of Ontario Law Deans. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

“Penn is simply one of the world’s great universities. I am looking forward to working closely with President Gutmann and the University’s members in advancing its very ambitious academic mission,” Daniels said in a release.

Daniels is married to Joanne Rosen, a lawyer with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. They have four children: Roberta, Ryan, Andrew and Ally. He received his B.A. and his J.D. from the University of Toronto in 1982 and 1986, respectively, and his LL.M. from Yale University in 1988.