Indira Vasanti Samarasekera OC[1] (née Arulpragasam; April 11, 1952)[2] is the former president and former vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta.

That year, she began working in the Department of Metals and Materials Engineering at UBC with a focus on the continuous casting and hot rolling of steel.

[9] She succeeded Roderick Fraser as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta on July 1, 2005, and served two terms, ending June 30, 2015.

Samarasekera is on the board of directors of TC Energy, owner of the Keystone Pipeline, appointed in 2016.

Samarasekera continues to live at the home and pays rent based on fair market value.

[29] In an interview with the Edmonton Journal on October 21, 2009,[30] Samarasekera raised her concerns regarding the fact that 58% of university undergraduates in Canada were female.

No one is going to question me when I say we have a problem", and "We'll wake up in 20 years and we will not have the benefit of enough male talent at the heads of companies and elsewhere."

"[32] Samaraskera responded by noting that she appreciated satire as a form of freedom of speech, but hoped that such debate be held in a cordial and respectable manner.