25th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
22-25 AUGUST 2023

LOOKING BACK – LOOKING FORWARD

SPEAKER BIO

Darla Deardorff

Darla K. Deardorff

Dr. Darla K. Deardorff is Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). In addition, she is a research scholar at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute and holds faculty positions at universities in several countries, including as UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Competences at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), as a research associate at Durban University of Technology and Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), Meiji University (Japan), Shanghai International Studies University (China), and York University (Canada).

She has served on the faculty of Harvard University’s Global Education Think Tank and as faculty for Harvard’s Future of Learning Institute as well as the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication in Portland, OR and adjunct faculty at several institutions including North Carolina State University. With over 20 years of experience in international education, she has also held national leadership positions with NAFSA and with Forum on Education Abroad.