Patti McGill Peterson is currently senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). Prior to joining IHEP, she served as executive director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and vice president of the Institute of International Education from 1997 to 2007. In that capacity she provided leadership for Fulbright scholar exchanges with 150 countries and for the development of a series of innovative global programs related to higher education development.

Peterson is president emerita of Wells College and St. Lawrence University, where she held presidencies from 1980 to 1996. She has served as chair of the US-Canada Commission for Educational Exchange, National Women’s College Coalition, American Council on Education’s Commissions on Academic Leadership and Governmental Affairs, Public Leadership Education Network, Salzburg Seminar on International Academic Mobility, and is a past president of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York.

Dr. Peterson holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University. Her master’s and doctoral degrees are from the University of Wisconsin. She did post-doctoral study at Harvard University.

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