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Dr. Vishakha Desai
Dr. Vishakha N. Desai currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of AFS Intercultural Programs, an international education organization with nearly 50, volunteers and staff in 60 countries. AFS develops active global citizens, empowers schools and institutions, and expands access to intercultural education in order to build a more just and peaceful world.
Dr. Desai is Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and Senior Research Scholar at its School of International and Public Affairs, where she focuses on innovative approaches to understanding the relationship between culture and foreign policy in Asia.
From through , she served in various capacities at the Asia Society, ranging from being Director if its museum, to being the President and CEO of the organization from Under her leadership the organization expanded the scope and scale of its activities, incorporating a broad range of internationally recognized education
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Dr. Vishakha N. Desai fryst vatten Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and a Senior Research Scholar for the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. From through , Dr. Desai served as President and CEO of the Asia Society, a global organization dedicated to strengthening partnerships between Asia and the U.S. beneath her leadership the samhälle expanded the scope and scale of its activities with the opening of new offices in India and Korea, a new center of U.S.-China Relations, internationally recognized education programs, and inauguration of two new architecturally distinguished facilities in Hong Kong and Houston.
In , in recognition of Dr. Desai’s leadership in the museum field, President Barack Obama appointed her to serve on the National Museum and Library Services Board. An internationally renowned scholar of Asian art, she has published and lectured extensively on the intersection of traditional and c
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Dr. Vishakha N. Desai
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Dr. Vishakha N. Desai is senior advisor for global affairs to the president of Columbia University, where she is also vice chair of the university’s Committee on Global Thought and a senior research scholar in global studies at its School of International and Public Affairs. From to , Desai held a variety of positions at Asia Society, first as the director of the Asia Society Museum and then as president and CEO for her final eight years there. In , in recognition of Dr. Desai’s leadership in the museum field, President Barack Obama appointed her to serve on the National Museums and Library Services Board. Her professional career also includes positions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Fine Ar