Dr. Andrea E. Thomas is an educational leader in global learning, innovation and virtual exchange, with a track record of building and scaling collaborative international programming in higher education. She has worked with more than forty universities worldwide as an institutional mentor, designing programs for digital community-building and international peer-to-peer learning through Virtual Exchange and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). She served as Senior International Officer at Farmingdale State College and was a Fellow of the Association of International Education Administrators, and has collaborated with the American Council on Education and the SUNY COIL Center. She began her career at UNICEF, working on ethics and operations in international development.