Dr Allan E. Goodman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Education. IIE administers the Fulbright program as well as other leading scholarship and professional development programs sponsored by the United States Departments of State and Defense, conducts research on international student mobility, and responds to crises through its Scholar Rescue, Student Emergency, and Artist Protection funds. The Institute manages over 200 corporate, government and privately sponsored programs. Since its founding in 1919, 108 Trustees, students, and scholars touched by IIE have won Nobel Prizes.

Previously, Dr Goodman was Executive Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of books on international affairs published by Harvard, Princeton and Yale University presses. Dr. Goodman served as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence in the Carter Administration. Subsequently, he was the first American professor to lecture at the Foreign Affairs College of Beijing, helped create the first U.S. Academic exchange program with the Moscow Diplomatic Agency for the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, and developed the diplomatic training program of the Foreign Ministry of Vietnam.

Dr Goodman has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and IBM. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the selection committees for Rhodes and Schwarzman Scholars and has previously served on the Yidan Prize. In addition, Dr Goodman acts as an international advisor to Council for Higher Education Accreditation and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Education Above All Foundation, International Law Institute, and CMKL University.

Dr Goodman has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.S. from Northwestern University. He is the recipient of 17 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in North America, Europe and the UK, and Asia. He has received awards from Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, South Florida, and Tufts universities, the Légion d’honneur from France, the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, the Federal Cross of Merit of Germany, and the inaugural Gilbert Medal for Internationalization of Universitas 21.