Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Heather Gentner
Associate Director for Finance and Administration, Bing Overseas Studies
Current Role at StanfordI am the Associate Director for Finance and Administration at the Bing Overseas Studies Program. In this role I am responsible for management and coordination of administrative and operations-related functions of the BOSP home office, overseas centers, and various academic partnership and faculty-led education abroad programs. I manage the financial planning and reporting needs for BOSP, including the preparation and management of the annual consolidated budget, and provide general counseling and guidance to our global centers and home office on areas of financial and operational concern.
Previously, I was Finance Manager for the Stem Cell Institute, in charge of the annual budget and sponsored and non-sponsored account portfolios. And before that, I was Grants Manager for the Stanford Cancer Institute working with multiple PIs and handling financial details for the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG). -
Shawna Knauff
Associate Vice Provost, Executive Director, Bing Overseas Studies
BioShawna Knauff is Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Executive Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program. She joined BOSP in 2016 as the Associate Director for Student and Academic Services and assumed the role of Executive Director in 2018. In this role she provides leadership for all BOSP programs and operations. Serving as the hub of undergraduate study abroad and away, BOSP operates academic centers in Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, New York, Oxford, Paris, and Santiago. In addition, students have global learning opportunities through academic partnership programs in Australia, Istanbul, Hong Kong and short-term, faculty-led seminars.
Shawna has over twelve years of experience in international and higher education. Before coming to Stanford, she held leadership roles at Hult International Business School and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Shawna has extensive experience in education abroad program development and operations, international student and scholar services, crisis and risk management, and student advising. She is an active member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the Forum on Education Abroad. She currently serves as an officer of Stanford’s subsidiaries in Chile and South Africa and member of the advisory board for the Rubenstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement Program (ACE).
As an undergraduate, Shawna spent a year studying abroad in Granada, Spain. She holds a BA in Spanish and a BS in Recreation Administration from California State University Chico and MA in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. -
Miguel Larrañaga Zulueta
Overseas Studies - Madrid, Bing Overseas Studies
BioSt Sebastian (Spain), 1961.
Graduated in Philosophy, master degree in Paleography and PhD in Medieval History. The social and cultural history of the Middle Ages has centered his teaching and research work, areas on which he has published an extensive number of books and articles. Some of his latest publications are: "Palabra, Imagen, Poder: Enseñar el Orden en la Edad Media" (Word, Image, Power: Teaching Order in the Middle Ages), 2015; "Sobre los orígenes del culto jacobeo" (On the origins of the Jacobean cult), 2018; “History and Art in the convent of Santa Cruz la Real of Segovia " (2018).
He has been a professor at the universities of Alcala (Spain) and Middlebury College (Madrid), and a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish Superior Council of Scientific Research). He was a visiting professor in the United States (St John's U.-The Hill Manuscript Library, Minnesota), Germany (Institut für Franziskanische Geschichte - Münster) and the United Kingdom (Oxford Center for Medieval History - U. of Oxford). He is currently a professor, director of the Antiquity & Middle Ages Research Center and Vice-Rector of IE University, professor at Stanford University in Madrid, member of the CARMEN group (Cooperative for the Advancement of Research through the Medieval European Network), and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Routledge, USA).
Miguel is married and lives in Madrid and Segovia (Spain). He enjoys outdoor activities: Rock climbing, mountain biking, and surfing. -
Eloi Laurent
Overseas Studies - Paris, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Éloi Laurent is a senior economist at OFCE, professor at Ponts Paris Tech, at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and visiting professor at Stanford University (Paris and Stanford). Macro-economist by training (PhD), he graduated from Paris-Dauphine and Sciences Po (summa cum laude).
His work focuses on the relationship between well-being and sustainability through the social-ecological approach, in particular the exploration of the sustainability-justice nexus and planetary health-human health nexus (“full health nexus”).
He is the author or editor of twenty books in French and English (translated into nine languages), three governmental reports and around a hundred articles published in French and international journals.
He was parliamentary attaché to the National Assembly and assistant in the cabinet of the French Prime Minister. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, and Visiting Scholar and Professor at Harvard University.
He is Research Fellow at the Well-being Economy Alliance (WeALL), qualified expert for European institutions and chairman of the SHS 5 (economics and law) and Foresight (sustainable development) Commissions of the Scientific Research Fund, FRS- FNRS (Belgium).
He recently published The New Environmental Economics – Sustainability and Justice (2020) https://politybooks.com/the-new-environmental-economics/ , The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy (2021) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030678593 and the Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment (2021) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Political-Economy-of-the-Environment/Laurent-Zwickl/p/book/9780367410704 .
