Executive Officers

Terry Motiuk, PhD, MBA, CMA, CGA
Vice President for Finance and Administration

Dr. Terry Motiuk joined Alfaisal University in the fall of 2007 and is responsible for all the support services including facilities, human resources, finance, procurement, information technology, public relations, marketing, and office administration.

Prior to this Dr. Motiuk was a Harvard employee working with Harvard Medical International as part of the landed team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to develop the Center for Healthcare Planning and Quality associated with the Dubai Healthcare City development project.

Dr. Motiuk received his Masters degree in business administration from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, followed by a PhD in Business Administration (specializing in strategic planning in education). Prior to this Terry earned two professional accounting designations in Canada: Certified General Accountant (CGA), and Certified Management Accountant (CMA).

Terry Motiuk’s professional experience has spanned over 30 years. His health care experience has been at various levels of governance and administration: government, regional and in hospitals. He also has had extensive work experiences in the education, public accounting and legal system fields, both in the private and public sectors. He has spent 11 years as a business instructor at several different universities and colleges where he developed courses, delivered lectures, facilitated workshops, and developed and marked national accounting exams.

He specializes in startups/setups of new organizations. Combining both a public perspective of accountability and client focus, with the private sector mentality of being practical and bottom line driven, enables Dr. Motiuk to bring the best of both worlds in planning and decision making.

Dr. Motiuk was in Qatar being instrumental in the development of a unique higher education model, called Education City under the Qatar Foundation. Elite US research-based universities have established branch campuses offering the same quality and degrees as the mother university for a particular program. In addition, he was the project manager in the development of a US model Academic Medical Hospital into the implementation stage.

Besides being a member of various accounting and auditing professional associations, Dr. Motiuk has been a Board of Director of an investment company, and has served on numerous finance committees and advisory boards. He has been actively involved in community services, including Junior Achievement, and Boy Scouts. He volunteered for two years in the Philippines to provide humanitarian services.