Darla K. Deardorff

Darla K. Deardorff is currently executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, a national professional organization based at Duke University, where she is also a research scholar in education and an educator with Duke Corporate Education. In addition, she is a visiting professor at Leeds-Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, and a faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon.

Deardorff is founder of ICC Global (http://www.iccglobal.org), a global network of researchers on issues of intercultural competence. She has received numerous invitations from around the world to speak on her research on intercultural competence and assessment and is a noted expert on these topics. With nearly 20 years of experience in the international education field, she has published widely on topics in international education and was editor of The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence, among other books. She serves as a consultant and trainer on international education, global leadership, faculty development, intercultural competence development and assessment for universities, corporations, and nonprofit organizations around the world, including UNESCO. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an outstanding alumnus award from her undergraduate alma mater as well as a distinguished alumnus award for the department at her graduate alma mater, and several professional awards.

She has been active in numerous international education professional organizations including as a leader in NAFSA, Forum on Education Abroad, and as a Trainer in European Association of International Education (EAIE). Deardorff serves as a reviewer for numerous journals including the Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE) and is a member of IAU's Ad-Hoc Expert Group on Internationalization as well as the Network of International Education Associations (NIEA).

Deardorff holds a master's degree and a doctorate from North Carolina State University where she specialized in international education. Her dissertation, on the definition and assessment of intercultural competence, has drawn national and international attention, and her intercultural competence models developed through research are being used by organizations and postsecondary institutions worldwide. A member of International Academy of Intercultural Research, she has lived and worked in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.

Hans de Wit

Hans de Wit is professor (lector) of internationalization of higher education at the School of Economics and Management of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences and, as of 2012, also professor of internationalization of higher education and academic director at the International Education Research Centre (IERC) of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan. Since 2010, he is a visiting professor at the Centre for Academic Practice and Research in Internationalization (CAPRI) of Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. In 2005–2006, he was a New Century Scholar of the Fulbright Program, Higher Education in the 21st Century. He was a visiting scholar in the United States in 1995 and 2006 and in Australia in 2002.

He is the coeditor of the Journal of Studies in International Education (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE publishers). He has (co)written several other books and articles on international education and is actively involved in assessment and consultancy in international education for organizations like the European Commission, UNESCO, World Bank, IMHE/OECD, and ESMU. His latest books are Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internationalization of Higher Education (2011) and, as editor, Measuring Success in Internationalization of Higher Education (2009).

Among his other books are: Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States of America and Europe: a Historical, Comparative and Conceptual Analysis (2002), United States; Higher Education in Latin America: The International Dimension, coedited with Isabel Cristina Jaramillo, Jocelyne Gacel Avila and Jane Knight (2005), and European Responses to the Global Perspective, edited with Barbara Kehm (2006).

He has undertaken quality reviews of a great number of institutions of higher education in the framework of the visiting advisors program (VAP), IQRP, IQR, Eurostrat, and NVAO. He is coeditor of Quality and Internationalization of Higher Education’ with Jane Knight (1999).

He has been director of the Office of Foreign Relations, vice president for International Affairs, and senior advisor international at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, in the period 1986 to 2005 and director of international relations at Tilburg University from 1981 to 1985. He was assistant professor in Latin American Studies at Utrecht University, 1979 to 1981. He has a bachelor's, master's and PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

Hans de Wit is founding member and past president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). Currently, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of World Education Services (New York), member of the ESL TOEFL Board (as of 2011), and member of the Consell Assessor de l'Institut Internacional de Postgrau de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

In 2008, he received the Constance Meldrum Award for Vision and Leadership of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) in Antwerp. Previously, he received awards from the University of Amsterdam (2006), AIEA (2006), CIEE (2004 and 2006), NAFSA (2002), and EAIE (1999).

John D. Heyl

John D. Heyl's career in international higher education has included teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level at three U.S. institutions, leadership in local, regional, and national professional associations and practitioner in both the public and private sector. He is currently vice president for strategic partnerships at CEA Global Education, an education abroad program provider based in Tempe, Arizona.

He has served as senior international officer (SIO) at three U.S. universities. At Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Illinois), a private, liberal arts campus, he chaired the history department and social science division and co-founded the international studies program. At the University of Missouri-Columbia, a public land grant institution, he helped develop the award-winning Global Scholars Program for faculty development. At Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia), he helped expand study abroad participation at an urban, historically commuter institution and co-founded the master's program in international higher education leadership. He has won awards for both his teaching and administrative work.

Active in professional associations, Heyl served as president of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) (2000–2001) and has presented papers and led workshops at NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the European Association for International Education (EAIE). He has consulted widely at U.S. universities and has advised on global education initiatives at the middle and high school levels as well. He is the author of The Senior International Officer (SIO) as Change Agent (2007).

Heyl has led or co-led numerous U.S. Department of Education Title VI and U.S. State Department grants for internationalizing the curriculum, enhancing faculty development, and training high school teachers worldwide. He has also reviewed applications for funding from these agencies.

Heyl earned his BA in history from Stanford University, with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He focused his doctoral work in European and [Page 523]German history at Washington University in St. Louis. He has held several Fulbright grants to Germany and has written on the interplay between politics and economics in the German depression of the 1930s. He taught for 20 years on a wide range of subjects, including German history, world history, comparative revolutionary movements, and international higher education leadership.

Tony Adams (1944–2011)

On Thursday, May 12, 2011, at the age of 67, Tony Adams, co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of International Higher Education, passed away.

Tony commenced as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at RMIT in1978. Following five years as Head of Department of Business Computing at RMIT, he acted for a year as Dean of Business in 1990–91, being appointed to the position of Dean International Programs in 1992, a position he held until 1998. Tony was appointed a member of the Foundation Professoriate at RMIT in 1992.

In 1997 he was awarded the inaugural IDP award for excellence in International Education and in 2006 he received the Charles Klasek Award for his contribution to international education from the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA).

In 1998 he took up the position of Director International Programs at Macquarie University. In 2004, he was appointed as Pro Vice Chancellor International at Macquarie, a position he held until January 2007. During his time at Macquarie University, he developed an extensive quality network of partnerships which made this university an institution with active international mobility and exchange. In January 2007, Tony and his wife Pauline formed Tony Adams and Associates, international education consultants. Together, they have worked with universities in Australia, Mexico, the Netherlands and Italy as well as with U.S. British and Canadian organizations.

Tony is widely published in the areas of educational computing and international education. Among the many publications he is (co) author of are three JSIE Published Papers: Adams, T, The Operation of Transnational Degree and Diploma Programs, The Australian Case, 1998; Walters, D., Adams, T., Global Reach Through a Strategic Operations Approach: An Australian Case Study, 2001; and Adams, T., The Development of International Education in Australia, 2007. In 2008 he became co-editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education.

Tony has been the founding and immediate Past President of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA), Vice Chairman of the Board of the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP), special advisor to Università Cattolica Del Sacre Cuore (UCSC), and special advisor to the Mexican Association of International Education (AMPEI). He was a regular trainer and presenter at workshops, sessions and seminars during the conferences of NAFSA, EAIE, AIEA and his own association IEAA. He was a member of a working group that created a new Network of International Education Associations (NIEA).

As described in a tribute by IDP Education Australia, “One of the most rewarding aspects of serving the international education community is the relationships we are able to form with people truly passionate about what they do. Perhaps no one was more passionate than Tony Adams.”