GINA CODY

Our namesake

Gina Parvaneh Cody is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader with more than 30 years of experience in the private sector. She provided engineering services to major real estate investment trusts, financial institutions, builders and developers across Canada. She was executive chair and principal shareholder of CCI Group Inc., a Toronto-based engineering consulting firm, until 2016, when she retired and sold the company.

Cody earned a Bachelor of Science from Aryamehr University of Technology, now Sharif University of Technology, in Iran. After immigrating to Canada in 1979, she pursued graduate studies at Concordia, completing a master’s degree in engineering in 1981. In 1989, she became the first woman in the university’s history to earn a PhD in building engineering.

An active member of the Concordia community, Cody sits on the Board of Governors, is a member of the Governance Committee and chairs the Real Estate Planning Committee. She also chairs the Advisory Board, which helps guide the direction of engineering and computer science at Concordia.

She became chancellor of Concordia University on January 1, 2025, after serving as co-chancellor since May 1, 2024, and continues to play a key role in the university’s governance and convocation ceremonies.

Cody lives in Toronto with her husband, Thomas Cody, a Concordia graduate. They have two daughters: Roya Cody, a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, and Tina Cody, a law student at the University of Toronto.

The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science was renamed the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science following her historic donation to the Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen. Now.