CSHE - Richard J. Edelstein

Richard J. Edelstein

Richard Edelstein is a Research Associate at Berkeley’s Center for Studies In Higher Education where he collaborates with John Douglass, Senior Research Fellow, on studies of the impact of globalization on higher education institutions. He is also Principal and Managing Director at Global University Concepts, a higher education consultancy he launched to advise universities on international strategies and the development of partnerships and alliances with foreign institutions. Richard has extensive experience designing and managing international projects at universities and business schools. He was Director of International Affairs for six years at AACSB International, the primary U.S. university business school association and accrediting agency. For seven years he was in France as Director of an international MBA program, a joint project of ESSEC Business School in Paris and Cornell University.

For over ten years Richard worked in several administrative positions at the University of California, Berkeley, in the International Education Office and the Institute of International Studies. He has an M.A. in Higher Education Management from Berkeley and has done research on international higher education issues in the U.S. and Europe.

His publications include: “Whither the Global Talent Pool: The U.S. Remains Competitive but Lacks a Strategic Approach” (with John Douglass) Change, Vol. 41, No. 4, July/August 2009; “Making Sense of Globalization,” Strictly Business, Spring 2005, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, p. 8; "Going Abroad for your MBA," chapter in Peterson's Guide to MBA Programs, Thomson-Peterson's, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 2005, pp. 28-32.; "The Research Training System in France: A Micro Study of Three Academic Disciplines," (with Guy Neave) in The Research Foundations of Graduate Education, ed. Burton R. Clark, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1993,pp. 192-220.