Professor Roberto Rabel is Pro Vice-Chancellor, International at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). His role involves overseeing the university’s internationalisation strategies and activities. He is Vice-President of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, New Zealand Co-Chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, a Trustee of the Greater Mekong Subregion Tertiary Education Consortium, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Victoria Institute for Links with Latin America. Professor Rabel has made presentations on internationalisation strategy and policy to conferences and workshops organised by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Education New Zealand, the European Association for International Education, Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics New Zealand, and the New Zealand Ministry of Education. From 1986 to 2000, Professor Rabel taught in the History Department at University of Otago before moving into management roles there. He is the author or editor of over 35 books and articles, including an official history, New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy (2005). He received a PhD in American Diplomatic History from Duke University, USA.

Professor Roberto Rabel is participating in the Embedding global citizenship within the student experience session.