d.deardorff@aieaworld.org

Dr. Darla K. Deardorff is currently executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, a national professional organization based at Duke University, where she also teaches cross-cultural and teacher-training courses. In addition, she is a visiting professor at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. 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. She has published widely on topics in international education and is editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009). Dr. Deardorff holds a master’s and doctorate from North Carolina State University where she focused on 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 her research are being used by such organizations as the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany and Sodexho. Her research interests include intercultural competence, outcomes assessment, internationalization, teacher preparation, and learning styles in different cultures.