Peggy Blumenthal, Vice President for Educational Services at the Institute of International Education, supervises IIE’s corporate and foundation programs, overseas offices (in Bangkok, Beijing, Budapest, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Mexico City, Moscow, New Delhi), Higher Education Research Group, and International Fellowships Program Division. She joined IIE in 1984 as Assistant Director of Program Development, becoming a Vice President in 1987. Previous work in international education included three years as Assistant Director of Stanford University's Overseas Studies and two years as Coordinator of Graduate Services/Fellowships for the University of Hawaii's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Ms. Blumenthal has been actively involved in the development of U.S.-China exchanges, as a staff member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Asia Society's China Council. She is the author of several works on this subject, including American Study Programs in China: An Interim Report Card and "American Study in China: A Half-Open Door”.

More recent 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 U.S.-Japan Educational Relationship and "Looking Out: Trends and Concern in United States International Academic Mobility", an article published in the IAU Journal. Other professional experience includes work on U.S. domestic social and economic issues as a member of the JDR 3rd Fund's Youth Task Force, New York Mayor John V. Lindsay's Urban Action Task Force, and as Special Assistant to the Staff Director, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She received her B.A. in Modern Chinese History from Harvard University and her M.A. in American Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Updated: 09/10/2003