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Courtney Giordano

Senior Director, Strategic Global Initiatives

Courtney Giordano is Senior Director of Strategic Global Initiatives, providing leadership for international partnership and program development, external engagement supporting campus internationalization efforts, strategic communication for Global Initiatives and the Study Abroad office.  

Courtney’s career in international affairs spans 20 years, where she is known for developing multi-constituent, broad regional engagement strategies. Courtney has developed collaborative and dual degree programs, global internship programs, and bilateral exchanges with partners in Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Europe and Latin America, and is working with partners in Singapore and India to develop multilateral endeavors.  

Courtney Co-Chaired UC San Diego’s participation in the American Council on Education’s Internationalization Laboratory where she authored the final report that serves as the foundation of the working Strategic Internationalization Plan for the university.   

Courtney began her career in Washington, D.C. administering professional exchange programs under the auspices of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. She is a graduate from UC San Diego, where she earned bachelor’s degree in political science and history and received a master’s degree in history from San Diego State University.