Peggy Blumenthal is responsible for the overall programmatic and administrative operations of the Institute of International Education (IIE). She also directly supervises IIE’s research activities, corporate and foundation-funded scholarships and training activities, Global Engineering Educational Exchange Consortium and support activities to the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program.
Before joining IIE in 1984, she served as Assistant Director of Stanford University's Overseas Studies and then as co-ordinator of Graduate Services/Fellowships for the University of Hawaii's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Ms. Blumenthal was active in the development of US-China exchanges, as a staff member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Asia Society's China Council.
Her publications include a co-edited volume, Academic Mobility in a Changing World: Regional and Global Trends; 'An Overview of Cultural and Educational Exchanges' (a co-authored essay in Transnational Competence: Rethinking the US-Japan Educational Relationship); 'Virtual and Physical Mobility: A View from the US', an article in The Virtual Challenge to International Cooperation in Higher Education; and 'Looking Out: Trends and Concern in United States International Academic Mobility', an article published in the IAU Journal.
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