Mark S. Lazar, Deputy Vice President for Scholarship Programs and International Operations at the Institute of International Education, oversees the work of the Institute’s global network of offices around the world and supervises the scholarship and training programs that the Institute administers on behalf of corporations, foundations, individuals, international organizations and US government agencies. Programs include: the Ford Foundation Global Travel and Learning Fund, the GE Foundation Scholar-Leaders Program, the Japan-IMF Fellowships and more than a dozen Children of Employee scholarship programs for major international corporations including AIG, Harman International and Lockheed Martin.

Mr. Lazar’s portfolio also includes several Science and Technology initiatives to help increase global awareness in these fields. Programs include the NSF-funded, Central Europe Summer Research Institute (CESRI), which supports US graduate students in the sciences to complete summer research internships at Central European institutions and the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E 3 ), a consortium of over 70 universities in the US and abroad to promote study abroad in the fields of engineering.

Mr. Lazar holds Master’s degrees from New York University in Urban Planning and Columbia University in European History. He has a Bachelors degree in History from University of Wisconsin-Madison.