Darla is Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), as well as a Research Scholar at Duke University, USA. She is an EAIE trainer. She holds a Master’s degree in adult education with a focus on second language acquisition and a Doctorate degree in education with a focus on international higher education. Darla has lived and taught abroad in Germany, Switzerland and Japan and is a faculty member at several universities around the world including in China, Japan, the USA and South Africa as well as at the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication in Portland, USA. She has conducted cross-cultural training for universities, companies and non-profit organisations for nearly 20 years and is frequently invited to give talks around the world. A recipient of numerous awards, Darla has published widely on international education, intercultural competence and outcomes assessment with eight books and 60+ articles and book chapters. She edited the SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence (2009) and co-edited the SAGE Handbook of International Higher Education (2012) and Building Cultural Competence: Innovative Activities and Models (Stylus 2012), among others.
Dr. Terrence G. Wiley is Immediate Past President of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington DC. “Terry” is also Professor Emeritus at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) and at Arizona State University (ASU), where he was Executive Dean of the former Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education, Director of the Division of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, a co-founding faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics, and an affiliate in the Center for Asian Research. At CSULB he designed and coordinated M.A. programs in Multicultural-Multilingual Education and Literacy and Language Diversity. He was jointly appointed in Linguistics and Education, and he was an invited faulty affiliate in Chicano-Latino Studies and Asian-Asian American Studies.