Vice Provost for Global Affairs
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kalpen Trivedi is Vice Provost for Global Affairs, responsible for leading campus-wide strategy and initiatives for global engagement. He also serves as a Senior Advisor on Global Strategies in the University of Massachusetts President’s Office for all the system campuses. His expertise in international partnerships, program design and evaluation, and global operations and compliance is sought by academia, governments, and professional organizations. Trivedi is a regular contributor on current topics in fora such as APLU, NAFSA, and AIEA. Recognized as one of the “50 Voices of North America” by PIE in 2023, Trivedi’s other recent distinctions include the Fulbright Fellowship (2024), IIE’s Senior International Officer of the Year (2021), and the AIEA Presidential Fellowship (2019). He is a member of AIEA’s Board of Directors and is Past-Chair (2023) for NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Commission on International Initiatives of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). Trivedi was educated in India and the U.K., with degrees from Gujarat University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Manchester.
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