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RESUME Fernando Palacio PhD

Orchard Park New York +81-80-773*-***** ad30rn@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfernandopalacio/ SUMMARY

** ***** ** ********** ** international program development, management, and assessment in higher education and the non-profit sector, including administrative procedures, staff recruitment and retention, risk prevention and crisis management in international travel. Proven experience with diverse communities, including communities of color and addressing systemic racism and inequality. Demonstrated collaborative results, attention to details, flexibility and committed to diversity and inclusion.

EXPERTISE

Executive leadership and Planning: Program analysis, marketing, drafting of grant proposals, concept, assessment, and record keeping. Ability to serve as liaison among universities and immigration officials. External and Board relations: ability to lead proven in programming 6 international projects on human rights and global studies. Collaboration for academic cooperation. Drafting reports and proposals for grants and funding. Program strategy and Innovations: 16 courses taught, in-person and online. MOOC Production. International education. Supervision of undergraduate and graduate theses, team building and interdisciplinary approaches. EDUCATION

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Japan 03/2011 PhD Area & Culture Studies: Peace & Conflict Studies. Dissertation: State building in Myanmar under military guidance and the dilemma of national security and social welfare: motivations behind state budgetary allocations Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Peace & Conflict Studies. Japan Master’s in international Cooperation: Dissertation: From hell to limbo - no protection for Burmese child soldiers. United Nations University. Japan

Postgraduate Diploma Conflicts: causes, prevention and international action and intervention Catholic University Cordoba. Argentina

Bachelor’s in international Relations. Faculty of Political Science and Int’l. Relations. Major International Relations Sophia University. Japan

Long term exchange (international Relations) Department of Comparative Culture PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Yale University. Financial Markets. Robert Shiller. 2023. Mygwork. LGBTQ+ inclusion. Empowering the LGBTQ+ business community. Workpride 2021 Mygwork. LGBTQ+ inclusion. Building a better working world. Workpride 2020 Cordoba Colic University. Leadership & management of human resources. 1997 PROFILE

• Interpersonal skills and effective communications based on 20+ years of global exposure.

• International programming proven by 20+ publications and 15+ years of teaching in 16 courses in 6 universities.

• Experience with immigration, documentation preparedness, and legal compliance in international education.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills applied in10+ international projects managed and assessed.

• Organizational skills geared towards process improvements developed through 10+ programs implemented.

• Enhanced strategic partnership with domestic and external stakeholders in 4 universities and 4 networks. FOREIGN LANGUAGE / COMPUTER SKILLS

Fluent: English Spanish Japanese. Intermediate: Italian French Portuguese Thai Greek JSL Software: Microsoft Office Google Suite Google Sheets Web design Project management software, asana, JIRA, trello VOLUNTEERING

• Collaborate with the Global Citizens Initiative mentoring fellows 2

WORK EXPERIENCE

Higher Education Consultant. Remote. 09/2021 – 09/2022

• Develop strategic direction on University Social Responsibility, nonacademic engagement, and SDGs policy.

• Promoting professional development through workshops. Strategies to negotiate university USR policy. Jr. Associate Professor Kyoto University International Strategy Office. Japan. 09/2016 – 08/2021

• Develop institutional internationalization vision and partnerships connecting with 150+ universities and networks.

• Supervise the management and budget development of Overseas Centers (ASEAN, North America, Europe, Africa).

• Managed projects, including a MOOC on university social responsibility and serve as a liaison with the USRN.

• Increased online student mobility from 1 to 40+ participants through client relationship management

• Managed Global KyotoU and KyotoU International Concierge, serving as help desk and web communications in foreign language to boost information, community resources, including government regulations.

• Risk prevention and crisis management for international travel, including visa and insurance procedures.

• Data collection and analysis, including budget and achievements for programs annual reports. Researcher & Assessment TAG-AIMS Program University of Tsukuba. Japan. 04/2014 – 08/2016

• Program planning, progress evaluation and draft reports with quantitative and qualitative auditing data.

• Serving as help desk and strategies in recruiting, partners relationship leading to 100+ Japanese students mobilized.

• Strategic partnership, connecting with 17 partner universities, resulting in 300+ inbound students hosted.

• Conducting orientations for in and outbound exchange students. Support for admissions and academic records.

• Strategic direction for ASEAN Café, an inter-cultural project promoting counseling students on global competence.

• Student advising in 5 undergraduate subjects: Academic Writing, Human Rights, Social Research Methodology, etc.

• Supporting organization of events including 4 international conferences, 3 workshops, study tours.

• Supervision of project budgets in student mobility initiatives. Researcher & Program Manager CRICED University of Tsukuba. Japan. 10/2013 – 03/2013

• Promoted international collaboration for educational development with 21 SEAMEO Centers in Southeast Asia.

• Administrative Support for AIMS Programme, implemented 2 international conferences and related social media.

• Produced book: Regional Integration through Educational Innovation. Sustainability beyond the ASEAN Community.

• Budget management related to organization of international conferences and international travel. Technical Officer & Main Researcher SEAMEO RIHED + ADB Thailand - ASEAN+3. 05/2011 – 07/2012

• Project management for action research to set the ASEAN+3 Regional Framework for Academic Exchange recognition.

• Staff management and direction to provide standard operating procedures in 10 countries in a programmatic research.

• Led interactions with 76 universities and program planning to promote harmonization for credit systems and regional frameworks to boost production human capital based on international exchange and student mobility.

• Monitored 3 international conferences (contents, logistics, record keeping), 2 capacity building workshops for officers.

• Designed professional development and budget development for staff development projects. NON-PROFIT EXPERIENCE

Human Rights analyst. Human Rights Documentation Unit Thailand. 08/2007 – 03/2008

• Managed data bases collection, and reporting of human rights violations for the 2007 Burma Human Rights Yearbook. Policy analyst Child Protection Office UNICEF EAPRO Asia Pacific. 01/2007 – 07/2007

• Identified on mechanisms for protection of children against violence in 15 countries and 10+ organizations. Researcher, advocate Asia-Forum for Humans Rights and Development Thailand. 06/2005 – 08/2005

• Built relationships, advocated and researched on immigration and protection mechanisms with organizations for child rights.

Researcher, advocate Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, UNESCO Japan, Cambodia. 09/2004 – 03/2005

• Researched on Culture of peace in Cambodia. Peacebuilding through networking with local and international organization. Team leader Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, MOFA, JICA Japan, East Timor, Indonesia. 09/2004 – 03/2005

• Led a team of 10 researchers on Peace Building and Reconciliation in East Timor and Indonesia.

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