Dr. Darla Deardorff

Dr. Darla K. Deardorff is an internationally recognized expert in intercultural competence, global education, and the internationalization of higher education. She is the chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competence at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In addition, she is a research scholar at Duke University and holds several other faculty appointments at institutions around the world, including in Japan, China, and Canada. She teaches through Harvard University and has taught at Harvard’s Global Education Think Tank and the Future of Learning Institute. She previously served for 19 years as executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, a leadership organization.

Dr. Deardorff has worked in the international education field for over thirty years and specializes in intercultural competence and training, intercultural assessment and evaluation, teacher and faculty preparation and development, curriculum internationalization, and global leadership. She is regularly invited to speak around the world on these topics. In addition, she consults with organizations such as the OECD, UNESCO, the World Bank, and the International Baccalaureate Organization, among others.

The founding president of the World Council on Global and Intercultural Competence, she is the author or editor of 14 books and more than 80 book chapters and articles. She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from North Carolina State University and can be reached on LinkedIn.