Board Chair
Leadership
AFS International provides worldwide leadership, coordination, support, quality control and development of the more than 50 AFS Partners across the globe.
AFS Australia Board of Directors
Henry Moser
Reg Smith
Board Member
Ruth Pearce
Board Member
Rebecca Hall
Board Member
David Wilmoth
Board Member
Peter Braithwaite
Board member
John Shuey
Advisor to the Board
Board of Trustees
Dr. Vishaka N. Desai
New York, USA (chair)
Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University, Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, President Emerita of the Asia Society
J. Brian Atwood
Massachusetts, USA (vice-chair)
Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute, Brown University, Former Dean & Chair of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Professor Emeritus. Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Maureen Erasmus
London, United Kingdom
Advisory Partner, Bain & Company
Amalie Ferdinand
Copenhagen, Denmark
Consultant, Federation of Public Workers Union
Makiko Haraga
Tokyo, Japan
Independent Writing and Editing Professional
Elisabeth Hardt
Brussels, Belgium and Italy
Freelance Consultant
Dede Huang
Hong Kong, S.A.R.
Director of Development, Chinese International School
Ivonne de Leon
Florida, United States
Founding Partner at TrueCore Group & Transmutis
William (Bill) Meserve
Massachusetts, USA
Retired Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Don Mohanlal
New York & Maryland, USA
President & Chief Executive Officer, The Synergos Institute. Vice Chair, Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, New Delhi, India
Daniel Obst
New York, USA (ex officio)
President and Chief Executive Officer, AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.
Ernesto Rey Moreno
Bogotá, Colombia
Founder & CEO, Empresas REYMORENO
Reg Smith
Melbourne, Australia
Business Consultant, ER Solutions Pty Ltd
Ragnar Thorvardarson
Reykjavik, Iceland
Specialist at Directorate for International and Security Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland
Ulrich Voss
Kronberg, Germany
Founder and Managing Partner at Kronberg Advisors
Alexis Zlocowski
Cordoba, Argentina
Latin America Big Data Sales Director at Teradata Aster
AFS Educational Advisory Council
Melissa Liles (Chair), New York, USA Chief Education Officer, AFS Intercultural Programs
Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. Oregon, USA and Milan, Italy Executive Director, The Intercultural Development Research Institute
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bolten, Jena, Germany Professor of Intercultural Business Communication, Universität Jena
Dr. Darla Deardorff, North Carolina, USA Executive Director Association of International Education Administrators and Research Scholar Program in Education, Duke University
Dr. Gunther Dietz, Veracruz, Mexico Secretary General, International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) and Director & Research Professor in Intercultural Education Universidad Veracruzana, Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación
Bruce La Brack, Ph.D., California, USA Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and International Studies, School of International Studies, University of the Pacific
Dr. Roberto Ruffino, Colle di val d’Elsa, Italy Secretary General, Fondazione Intercultura
Kumiko Torikai, Ph.D., Tokyo, Japan Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University
Michael (Mick) Vande Berg, Ph.D., Maine, USA Principal, MVB Associates
Professor Nagesh Rao, Ahmedabad, India President & Director, MICA Institute of Strategic Marketing and Communication
Mitchell R. Hammer (Special Advisor), Ph.D. Maryland, USA President, IDI, LLC and Hammer Consulting, LLC