Craig E. Hastings

Craig E. Hastings is an advisor to the Abu Dhabi Scholarships Division at the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), where he has worked for the past four years and currently serves as the Global Perspectives Member on the Annual Conference Committee. He has over 30 years of experience managing international scholarship and student exchange programs and his lived and worked in Brazil, Chile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the United States. His previous positions include executive director of university preparation programs at Ajyal Talent Management (Abu Dhabi, UAE); regional director of operations, Latin America and the Caribbean at CIEE (Santiago, Chile and São Paulo, Brazil); manager, specialized enrichment at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia); and deputy director of LASPAU, a nonprofit scholarship management affiliate of Harvard University, where he worked for 20 years. Craig graduated from Clark University with a BA in French and Spanish and a concentration in international relations. He received his EdM in administration, planning, and social policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.