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NAFSA's senior staff can provide expert commentary and perspectives on international education and exchange, as well as a wide range of other domestic and international issues.
Everett Egginton
2008 NAFSA President
Everett Egginton is Dean of International and Border Programs at New Mexico State University, and President of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. He has had vast experience in Latin America throughout his career including the Peace Corps (Venezuela), Foreign-Area Fellowship (Peru), Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship (Colombia); numerous consultancies with the U.S. Agency for International Development (Colombia, El Salvador), various ministries of education (throughout Central America), and the World Bank (El Salvador); and more recently as a Senior Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellow (El Salvador). Egginton has worked in the field of education over thirty-five years, occupying a wide range of positions in teaching, research and administration. He has been a high school teacher, a university professor and administrator, and director of international offices and funded educational programs. He is widely published in the areas of Latin American education, Latin American bibliography, and internationalization and higher education. He has also served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Senior Policy Analyst and an HHS (HEW) Fellow and has taught and conducted research at universities in Spain, Colombia, and throughout Central America. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), has served as Chair of the Standing Committee on International Exchanges and Matriculation at the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), and as a member of the Executive Committee of NASULGC’s Commission on International Programs.
Marlene Johnson is executive director and chief executive officer of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the world’s largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education. NAFSA’s nearly 10,000 members worldwide are the professionals that make international education opportunities possible for thousands of students each year. The association seeks to increase awareness of and support for international education and exchange in higher education, government, and the community, believing that citizens with international experience and global awareness are crucial to U.S. leadership, competitiveness, and security. Under Johnson’s leadership, NAFSA has become the leading advocate on behalf of international education, actively participating in the public and policy debates that impact the field and emerging as a respected voice in support of educational exchanges as a key tool of U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy.
Johnson’s leadership in government, business, and the nonprofit sector spans more than three decades. From 1983 to 1991, she served as lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Strengthening and expanding the state’s connections with the rest of the world – in trade, tourism, education, and the arts – was a hallmark of her time in office, and she was a particularly outspoken advocate of international educational exchange at the secondary and post-secondary level. Johnson also served as associate administrator for management services and human resources in the U.S. General Services Administration during the Clinton Administration.
Johnson currently serves on the Board of the Communications Consortium Media Center in Washington, DC, the Advisory Council of the US-China Education Trust, the Senior Advisory Council of Business for Diplomatic Action, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership at St Mary’s College -University of Notre Dame. She is a former Board member of the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange, AFS-USA, AFS Intercultural Programs, the World Press Institute and the National Association of Women Business Owners. In 1988, she was awarded the Royal Order of the Polar Star by the Kingdom of Sweden.
Subjects of expertise
Vic Johnson provides strategic planning, advice, and consultation for NAFSA's CEO and public policy department, focused on the development, strengthening, and execution of the association’s public policy agenda. He also continues to serve as the department’s chief press spokesperson. Before assuming this new role in 2008, Vic was associate executive director for public policy at NAFSA for nine years. A frequently consulted expert on policy issues related to international education, Johnson served for more than 20 years in senior foreign affairs positions in Washington, D.C. From 1981 to 1993, he was staff director of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, where he was responsible for all significant issues of Inter-American relations. In 1993, President Clinton appointed him director of the Peace Corps’ programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining NAFSA, Johnson was associate dean of international education at Jacksonville University in Florida. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, and has lived and worked in South America.
Subjects of expertise
Everett Egginton
2008 NAFSA PresidentEverett Egginton is Dean of International and Border Programs at New Mexico State University, and President of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. He has had vast experience in Latin America throughout his career including the Peace Corps (Venezuela), Foreign-Area Fellowship (Peru), Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship (Colombia); numerous consultancies with the U.S. Agency for International Development (Colombia, El Salvador), various ministries of education (throughout Central America), and the World Bank (El Salvador); and more recently as a Senior Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellow (El Salvador). Egginton has worked in the field of education over thirty-five years, occupying a wide range of positions in teaching, research and administration. He has been a high school teacher, a university professor and administrator, and director of international offices and funded educational programs. He is widely published in the areas of Latin American education, Latin American bibliography, and internationalization and higher education. He has also served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Senior Policy Analyst and an HHS (HEW) Fellow and has taught and conducted research at universities in Spain, Colombia, and throughout Central America. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), has served as Chair of the Standing Committee on International Exchanges and Matriculation at the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), and as a member of the Executive Committee of NASULGC’s Commission on International Programs.
Marlene M. Johnson
Executive Director and CEOMarlene Johnson is executive director and chief executive officer of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the world’s largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education. NAFSA’s nearly 10,000 members worldwide are the professionals that make international education opportunities possible for thousands of students each year. The association seeks to increase awareness of and support for international education and exchange in higher education, government, and the community, believing that citizens with international experience and global awareness are crucial to U.S. leadership, competitiveness, and security. Under Johnson’s leadership, NAFSA has become the leading advocate on behalf of international education, actively participating in the public and policy debates that impact the field and emerging as a respected voice in support of educational exchanges as a key tool of U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy.
Johnson’s leadership in government, business, and the nonprofit sector spans more than three decades. From 1983 to 1991, she served as lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Strengthening and expanding the state’s connections with the rest of the world – in trade, tourism, education, and the arts – was a hallmark of her time in office, and she was a particularly outspoken advocate of international educational exchange at the secondary and post-secondary level. Johnson also served as associate administrator for management services and human resources in the U.S. General Services Administration during the Clinton Administration.
Johnson currently serves on the Board of the Communications Consortium Media Center in Washington, DC, the Advisory Council of the US-China Education Trust, the Senior Advisory Council of Business for Diplomatic Action, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership at St Mary’s College -University of Notre Dame. She is a former Board member of the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange, AFS-USA, AFS Intercultural Programs, the World Press Institute and the National Association of Women Business Owners. In 1988, she was awarded the Royal Order of the Polar Star by the Kingdom of Sweden.
Subjects of expertise
- International education policy
- Global competition in higher education
- State-level initiatives in international education
Victor C. Johnson
Senior Advisor, Public PolicyVic Johnson provides strategic planning, advice, and consultation for NAFSA's CEO and public policy department, focused on the development, strengthening, and execution of the association’s public policy agenda. He also continues to serve as the department’s chief press spokesperson. Before assuming this new role in 2008, Vic was associate executive director for public policy at NAFSA for nine years. A frequently consulted expert on policy issues related to international education, Johnson served for more than 20 years in senior foreign affairs positions in Washington, D.C. From 1981 to 1993, he was staff director of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, where he was responsible for all significant issues of Inter-American relations. In 1993, President Clinton appointed him director of the Peace Corps’ programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining NAFSA, Johnson was associate dean of international education at Jacksonville University in Florida. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, and has lived and worked in South America.
Subjects of expertise
- International students and scholars in the United States
- Study abroad
- U.S. foreign policy
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- The Peace Corps
