Expertise

Strategic Advising | International and Higher Education | Government Relations

International Student Mobility

I bring over 25 years of experience assisting governments, industry, and academia in meeting the challenges of today’s complex international education environment. My expertise is built on a career of firsthand leadership: I created and led an American study-abroad program in Paris that grew sixfold in three years; oversaw five bilateral youth mobility programs at the Canadian Embassy in France while securing an eight-fold budget increase; and completed an as-it-stands (no revisions) PhD at the University of Toronto that garnered more than $200,000 in grant funding and was awarded the George L. Geis Dissertation Award by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.

Inter-governmental Diplomacy

I successfully navigate the nuances and intricacies of competing interests to deliver agreements that respect both cultural sensitivities and jurisdictional boundaries: I have written briefing notes and led preparatory meetings at the Ministerial and Ambassadorial level, including advising on bilateral youth mobility arrangements between Canada and European nations that resolved administrative deadlocks and doubled participation quotas for young people; authored a strategic report for Global Affairs Canada (GAC) that garnered buy-in from over a dozen partner embassies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America and harmonized International Experience Canada (IEC) fee-policy worldwide; and fulfilled senior advisory roles for the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), including facilitating the $12M federal-provincial funding agreement between Statistics Canada and all ten provincial jurisdictions.

Comparative Policy Research and Analysis

I provide the evidence-based information necessary for translating complex research and data into actionable policy options: I designed and led a pan-Canadian education-data prioritization project for Statistics Canada and Canada’s 22 ministries of education and higher education that informed future education-data development in Canada; produced an inter-jurisdictional review of outbound student mobility policy goals and initiatives for the Ontario ministry of higher education that supported the development of the Ontario International Postsecondary Education Strategy; and conducted a six-jurisdiction doctoral study on outbound student mobility public policy across Canada and Europe—analyzing 2,000 policy documents and conducting 86 bilingual interviews that contributed to shaping the Government of Canada’s Outbound Student Mobility Pilot Program (Global Skills Opportunity).

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