Durham, North Carolina, United States
Dr. Darla K. Deardorff is the chairholder of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Competences at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and a research fellow at Duke University. She previously served 19 years as Executive Director/CEO of the Association of International Education Administrators, a leadership organization. She is also the Founding President of the world Council on Intercultural and Global Competence, a nonprofit partner to the UNESCO Chair. She has worked in the international education field for over thirty years & previously held positions at North Carolina State University & the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill where she has had experience in study abroad, international student services, cultural programming, & ESL teaching/teacher training. She has lived, taught & worked in Germany, Japan, South Africa, & Switzerland. In addition, she has had 2 Fulbrights- one to South Africa and one to Japan. Dr. Deardorff 's faculty experience includes Harvard University's Future of Learning Institute, Harvard's Global Education Think Tank, the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication, Shanghai International Studies University (China), Nelson Mandela University (S. Africa) & Meiji University (Japan) as well as Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Regularly invited to speak around the world, Dr. Deardorff consults for universities, businesses, & non-profit organizations. Recent projects include advising the OECD's PISA Global Competence Project & a UNESCO Intercultural Competence Project. She has published widely, including 80+ articles and book chapters, as well as 14 books starting with The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009). Other books include lead editor of The Sage Handbook of International Higher Education (Sage, 2012 and 2nd edition, 2021), co-author of Building Cultural Competence (Stylus, 2012), author of Demystifying Outcomes Assessment for International Educators (Stylus, 2015), co-editor of Intercultural Competence in Higher Education (Routledge, 2017) and lead editor of Leading Internationalization (Stylus, 2018) and the Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles (Routledge/UNESCO, 2020) - which is open access in 6+ languages: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370336. For more detailed bio info, see https://sites.duke.edu/darladeardorff/ Specialties: Intercultural Competence, Internationalization, Assessment and Evaluation, Global Leadership, Cross-Cultural Training, Intercultural Research, International Higher Education,