InBrief: January + February 2017

In this issue: NAFSA's new executive director and CEO; the implications of Brexit; more than 1 million students in the United States; Ireland's strategies to attract more international students; Journal of Studies in International Education; the Platform for Education in Emergencies Response; NACAC's modified good practices principles; the job market for graduates with international experience; a new tool that measures students' global skills.

NAFSA Welcomes New Executive Director and CEO

NAFSA this month welcomes a new executive director and CEO—Esther Brimmer, PhD—a foreign policy expert and academic. She succeeds Marlene Johnson, who served as NAFSA executive director and CEO from 1998 until her retirement in December 2016.

Brimmer’s distinguished career includes three appointments within the U.S. Department of State, serving most recently as the assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs from April 2009 to 2013. She was a professor of practice of international affairs at The George Washington University, served as an adjunct senior fellow for international institutions at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a senior adviser at McLarty Associates.

She was previously deputy director and director of research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) from 2001–2009, and was a member of the SAIS faculty. She also taught at the College of Europe in Belgium, and from 1995–1999, she was a senior associate at the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Earlier, she served on Capitol Hill as a legislative analyst for the Democratic Study Group in the