Michael Nugent serves as Chief, Advanced Training and Research Team, International Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, where he oversees seven major Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs, including the Title VI National Resource Centers, Language Resource Centers, and Foreign Language and Area Studies programs. Dr. Nugent has held positions as a Program Officer and Coordinator of the U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, Vice President for Administration and Research at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and Deputy to the Chancellor for Systems Relations for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Author of the “Transformation of the Student Career: University study in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands” (Routledge, 2004), he actively works in the field of international higher education policy. In 1994, Michael Nugent received a DAAD fellowship for academic year of research at the University of Cologne and serves currently as the head of the Washington DAAD alumni chapter. He holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the Pennsylvania State University.