Assistant Director
State University of New York, Office of Global Affairs, System Administration
Christian Speedling is the Assistant Director within the Office of Global Affairs at the State University of New York, System Administration. His responsibilities include development and coordination of system-wide collaborative academic programs involving international partner institutions. He also coordinates the review of new and existing overseas, credit-bearing, academic degree and certificate programs, and for education abroad programs. Additionally, he serves as the coordinator of the SUNY dual diploma programs with the Turkish Higher Education Council and Turkish universities, and all aspects of the system-wide partnerships in Turkey.
Christian began his career in international education at SUNY New Paltz where he worked as a Study Abroad Advisor at the Center for International Programs for close to ten years. His interest in the field began when he studied abroad for a semester in Australia at the University of Southern Queensland. Christian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from SUNY Brockport in 2004. He continued his education while employed at New Paltz and completed a Master of Arts degree at the University at Albany in Political Science, including a short-term study abroad experience in Southeast Asia.