1. Don Betz is the president of the University of Central Oklahoma, a public regional institution serving the Oklahoma City metro area. During his 45-year career in higher education, he has served as the president of Northeastern State University (Oklahoma) and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin River Falls as well as provost at two universities. He was awarded the Medal of Excellence in University Teaching in Oklahoma and has been inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. He has founded leadership programs at four institutions and pursued his career interest in international studies through service at the United Nations, as a Fulbright Presidential Fellow and by sponsoring study abroad programs.
2. Gary Bonvillian has served as the president of Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia, since 2006. He has held both faculty and administrative roles in four other institutions over the past 38 years. As a Professor of Management, he has researched, taught, and consulted in the subject areas of leadership, change of management, organizational development, and quality principles. He is published in all of these topics to include serving as lead author on the Liberal Arts College Adapting to Change: The Survival of Small Schools, presented by Garland Publishing in 1996. He has been an invited chapter author in three other books.
3. Lisbeth Claus, Ph.D., SPHR, GPHR, SHRM-SCP, is a professor of Global HR at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University in Oregon (United States). Dr. Claus has been published widely in academic and professional journals on subject matters related to global HR. Her research focuses on the implications for global organizations when their employees cross borders. She is considered the leading expert on employer duty of care and informs employers of their obligation to protect their business travellers, international assignees, and dependents. She is editor-in-chief of the Global HR Practitioner Handbook series (Global Immersion Press). She served as interim Associate Dean at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Acting Dean at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She also held managerial positions at Safeway Inc. and Maritz Inc.
4. Gary Dill has served as the president of University of the Southwest since 2002. His prior professional experience includes 11 years of service in senior academic administration; 2 years in state department of education planning; 3 years as a university faculty member; and 12 years as a pastor in two denominations. Dill’s academic credentials include a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in higher education administration and ethics from the University of Texas at Austin [TX] and 2 years of postdoctoral study in philosophy and theology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend [IN]. His theological degrees include a doctor of ministry (D.Min.) from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville [KY], and a master of divinity (M.Div.) from Princeton Theological Seminary [NJ]. Philosophy and religion were his undergraduate majors at Houston Baptist University [TX], where he earned his bachelor’s degree (B.A.). He is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
5. Fernando Galván is a professor of English and the president of the University of Alcalá, Madrid (Spain), appointed for the period 2010–2018. He has extensive experience as a researcher in literature and as an expert in University teaching and research evaluation for quality agencies in Spain, France, and Italy. He is presently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), and has chaired (2007–2013) the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), a federation of 33 national associations of English Studies across Europe.
6. Dr. Geetha Garib has worked as an assistant professor in Management and Organization at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and researcher at the University College of London (UK). Her main research topics are diversity and social identity in the management field. She has published papers in several peer-reviewed journals on these topics (e.g., International Journal of Hospitality Management and Identity: an International Journal of Theory and Research). Recently, she wrote a chapter on International Diversity Management in the book Transcultural Marketing for Incremental and Radical Innovation (2014). She is also actively involved in management research and consulting.
7. Dennis H. Holtschneider, CM, is the president of DePaul University and a lecturer in the Harvard University Management Development Program. He has served on the boards of the National Association of Independent Colleges (NAICU) and The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), and presently, on the American Council of Education (ACE). In 2014, when this article was written, he was on sabbatical leave as Visiting Scholar of Higher Education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
8. Dr. Neal King is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and President Emeritus of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). Professor of Psychology and former President of Antioch University Los Angeles, he sits on the Board of Directors of the World University Consortium (WUC), the Advisory Board for the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP) and as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors and Distinguished Fellow at New Westminster College. King represents IAUP on the Multistakeholder Advisory Council for the United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC). Co-Editor of this volume, King is also Co-CEO of Docere Group International, a management consulting firm specialized in university turnaround and mergers and acquisitions.
9. Noel F. McGinn is Professor Emeritus from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Fellow Emeritus of the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has worked as an advisor to ministries of education and universities in 25 countries and has published on educational planning, school effectiveness, decentralization, and policy implementation.
10. Dr. J. Mark Munoz is a Professor of Management and International Business and Interim Dean at the Tabor School of Business at Millikin University. He was a former Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a recipient of several awards, including three Best Research Paper Awards, an International Book Award, a literary award, and the ACBSP Teaching Excellence Award among others. Aside from top-tier journal publications, he has authored/edited/co-edited 10 books, namely Land of My Birth, Winning Across Borders, In Transition, A Salesman in Asia, Handbook of Business Plan Creation, International Social Entrepreneurship, Contemporary Microenterprises: Concepts and Cases, Handbook on the Geopolitics of Business Hispanic-Latino Entrepreneurship, and Business Plan Essentials. He was recognized as a Distinguished Scholar by the Academy of Global Business Advancement. He handles management consulting projects worldwide specifically in the areas of strategic planning, business development, finance, and mergers and acquisitions.
11. Dr. Mac Powell is the seventh president of John F. Kennedy University and led the institution to historic financial success, the receipt of the federal Hispanic Serving Institution designation, and in the transition to becoming a serving-learning institution. He serves as a Commissioner for the American Council of Education’s Commission on Educational Attainment and Commissioner on the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior Commission, and he previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Performance Psychology and Chair of the Council of Applied Master’s Programs in Psychology. A graduate of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy, Dr. Powell’s recent scholarship focuses on the role of accreditation in consumer protection, educational attainment, and the challenges of rising tuition costs for students.
12. Ernesto Schiefelbein is the president of the Universidad Autonoma de Chile. He has also served as Minister of Education for Chile, Director of the Latin American Office of UNESCO, and program officer for the World Bank. He is the author of books on educational planning, educational finance, and determinants of student achievement. He has been awarded the Comenius Medal for his service to education.
13. Ralph A. Wolff served as the president of the Senior College Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) for 17 years, and led that agency toward new approaches of accreditation that are student and organizational learning centered. Recently he was appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) of the U.S. Department of Education. He currently serves as an international consultant on quality assurance, strategic visioning, and innovation.
14. Thimios Zaharopoulos serves as Provost at DEREE—The American College of Greece. Previously, he held various positions at Park University, including Vice President for Global and Lifelong Learning, Special Assistant to the President, Interim Provost, and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He has also held teaching positions at Washburn University and Pittsburg State University. He has published two books, Mass Media in Greece: Power, Politics and Privatization and Sports and Media (in Greek), and numerous book chapters and refereed journal articles in the area of international communication and media effects. He has been a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media and has served as an outside evaluator for the Open University of Cyprus and the Aristotelian University of Greece.