Dr. Clare Sisisky is currently the Executive Director of the Global Education Benchmark Group (GEBG), a non-profit organization that supports its 380+ member schools around the world in all aspects of global education. Clare has written and spoken widely on intercultural competence and global citizenship in K-12 education, and worked with hundreds of schools to design, develop, and assess their programs. Her recent publications include a co-authored chapter “Global Engagement, Perspective Sharing, and Future Seeing in and Beyond a Global Crisis” in the book Flux Leadership: Real time inquiry for humanizing educational change and an article in Teachers College Review on young alumni perspectives on their intercultural learning experiences in high school. She spent twenty years as a teacher and senior administrator at independent and public schools in the US, including 8 years at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia as the Founding Director of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship and the Director of Strategic Planning, where she led all global engagement, DEI, entrepreneurship, service-learning, and sustainability work including curriculum, programs, and faculty professional learning. She previously worked as the director of the Center for the Humanities in Henrico County Public Schools, for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in Beijing, and was on the faculty at Phillips Academy Andover. Clare was a founding board member of the Global Education Benchmark Group, served two terms as a board member of the Council for Standards in International Education Travel (CSIET), and coordinated the working group on K-12 education for the World Council for Intercultural and Global Competence. She earned a master’s degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Clare serves as a Research Associate and adjunct faculty member with the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University where she also served as the inaugural postdoctoral research fellow. At the Klingenstein Center, Clare teaches in the Head of School fellowship program, teaches graduate courses in intercultural and global learning, and researches climate action education.