Dan Kramer is the Director of the International Studies Office and oversees Education Abroad, the International Students & Scholars Program, the Lorna Sundberg International Center, and the Center for American English Language & Culture. Prior to joining UVA, he was the Director of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program at the Institute of International Education (IIE) and worked closely with other key stakeholders – including the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Fulbright Commissions, U.S. Embassies, and U.S. and international universities – on recruitment, selection, the pre-departure preparation, and in-country support of ca. 2,000 participants in over 130 countries. Dan is delighted to be back in the university setting again, after having worked in academia for over a decade as a faculty member – teaching, conducting research, and directing study abroad programs. He was the beneficiary of the Fulbright, DAAD, and other international scholarship programs. Dan comes from a small town of less than 200 in rural Minnesota where he worked as a licensed insurance agent while doing his undergraduate work at St. John’s University in Minnesota, before earning his MA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Ph.D. from Harvard.