International Affairs Advisory Council

The International Affairs Advisory Council is comprised of Case Western Reserve University administrators, senior faculty, and the deans of all schools and the college. The Council provides invaluable experience and expertise to guide the university's international activity and serves as an advisory group for the international rankings initiative. 

International Affairs Advisory Council Co-Chairs

David Fleshler - Vice Provost for International Affairs

David Miller - Associate Professor and Director, International Education Program, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

International Affairs Advisory Council Members

Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan - Dean, Case School of Engineering 

Rick Bishoff - Vice President for Enrollment, Undergraduate Admission

Nabil Bissada - Associate Dean for Global Relations, Professor and Director, Graduate Program, Department of Periodontics, School of Dental Medicine

Kenneth Chance - Dean, School of Dental Medicine

Mark Chance - Vice Dean for Research, Director, Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Charles W. and Iona A. Mathias Professor of Cancer Research, Office of Translation and Innovation, School of Medicine

Yolanda Cooper, Vice Provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian

Bradford Crews - Senior Executive Director, The Alumni Association

Daniel Ducoff - Vice President for Engineering and Global Development; Vice Dean for External Relations, Office of Development and External Relations, Case School of Engineering

Donald Feke - Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Case School of Engineering

Robert Gao - Cady Staley Professor of Engineering and Chair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Stanton Gerson - Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs Dean, School of Medicine, Professor, Department of Medicine & Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Daniel Goldmark, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Director of Center for Popular Music Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences

Mary Quinn Griffin - Associate Dean of Global Affairs Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing; Assistant Provost for Outcome Assessment and Accreditation, Professor and Institutional Researcher

Anurag Gupta - Vice Dean, H. Clark Ford Professor, and Professor of Banking and Finance, Weatherhead School of Management

Miroslav Humer, Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Daniel Lacks - C. Benson Branch Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case School of Engineering

Kenneth Ledford - Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences; Associate Professor of Law, School of Law

Janet McGrath - ​Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences

James McGuffin-Cawley - Arthur S. Holden Professor of Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering

Andrew Medvedev, Co-Dean Weatherhead School of Management, Professor, Department of Banking & Finance, Weatherhead School of Management

Carol Musil - Dean, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

J. Michael Oakes, Senior Vice President for Research and Technology Management, Veale Professor for Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Steve Petras - Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Damaris Punales-Alpizar, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Michael Scharf - Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Professor of Law, School of Law

William "Bill" Schiemann, Vice Dean for Research, School of Medicine, Goodman-Blum Professor in Cancer Research, School of Medicine, Professor, Department of Biochemistry

J.B. Silvers, Co-Dean Weatherhead School of Management, Professor, Banking and Finance, Professor of Population & Quantitative Health Services, School of Medicine

Robert Solomon, Vice President, Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity

Glenn Starkman - Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Physics and of Astronomy
Director, Institute for the Science of Origins, Director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, College of Arts and Sciences

Jen Vinson, Dir of Internal Communications, University Marketing and Communications

Dexter R. Voisin, Dean, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Joy Ward - Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Molly Watkins - Assistant Provost for International Affairs 

Victoria Wright - Associate Vice President for University Planning and Administration