Francisco Marmolejo

Francisco Marmolejo is higher education president at Qatar Foundation (QF), where he leads support and coordination efforts for an ecosystem of eight universities located in Education City in Doha, Qatar. From 2012 to 2020, Marmolejo worked at the World Bank, first as global higher education coordinator based in Washington, D.C., and later as lead higher education specialist for India and South Asia, based in New Delhi. From 1995 to 2012, he served as the founding executive director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration at the University of Arizona, where he also held the role of assistant vice president. 

Earlier in his career, Marmolejo was an American Council on Education Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, academic vice president of the University of the Americas in Mexico, and an international consultant with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He has served as a member of the NAFSA Board of Directors and was designated a NAFSA senior fellow. Marmolejo has received honorary doctoral degrees from five universities in Mexico, including his alma mater, the University of San Luis Potosí.