UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competences, Stellenbosch University

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 and previously held positions at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. There, she had experience in study abroad, international student services, cultural programming, and ESL teaching and teacher training. She has faculty affiliations at numerous institutions around the world including at Harvard University’s Global Education Think Tank. Author of 14 books and over 80 articles and a two-time Fulbright recipient, Dr. Deardorff has lived, taught, and worked in Germany, Japan, South Africa, and Switzerland.