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 a Research Scholar in the Program in Education. In addition, she is visiting professor at Leeds-Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, an adjunct professor at Monterey Institute of International Studies, and is on faculty of the prestigious Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. She has also been on the faculty of Harvard University’s Future of Learning Institute as well as at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She receives numerous invitations from around the world (in over 25 countries including in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Australia and Asia) to speak on her research and work on intercultural competence and international education assessment and is a noted expert on these topics, being named a Senior Fulbright Specialist.
She has been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences around the world including the CERCLL Intercultural Competence Conference in the US, ICC Global Conference in Salzburg, Austria as well as other conferences in Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Colombia, South Africa, the Netherlands and the United States. In May 2012, Dr. Deardorff was the commencement speaker at Bridgewater College in Virginia, US.She has worked in the international education field for over fifteen years and previously held positions at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill where she has had experience in study abroad, international student services, cultural programming, and ESL teaching/teacher training. She is also an ESL instructor and teacher trainer with over twelve years of experience and has lived, taught and worked in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.
