Darla Deardorff

Accomplished cross-cultural education trainer and author for 20 years

Darla is Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), as well as a Research Scholar at Duke University, USA. She is an EAIE trainer. She holds a Master’s degree in adult education with a focus on second language acquisition and a Doctorate degree in education with a focus on international higher education. Darla has lived and taught abroad in Germany, Switzerland and Japan and is a faculty member at several universities around the world including in China, Japan, the USA and South Africa. She has conducted cross-cultural training for universities, companies and non-profit organisations for nearly 25 years and is frequently invited to give talks around the world. A recipient of numerous awards, Darla has published widely on international education, intercultural competence and outcomes assessment with 11 books and 60+ articles and book chapters. She edited the SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence (2009) and co-edited the first and 2nd editions of the Handbook of International Higher Education (2012, 2021), Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Students' Stories and Self-Reflection (2022), and wrote the open access Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles (2020), among others.