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Nigel Cossar: Director of Penn Abroad |
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October 20, 2015, Volume 62, No. 10 |
Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel are pleased to announce that Nigel Cossar has been appointed director of Penn Abroad. He started on October 1.
Mr. Cossar came to Penn from the University of Melbourne, where he directed the university’s study abroad and international exchange initiatives from 2007-2014. In this position, he led a tenfold increase in students studying abroad (from 300 students in 2007 to more than 3,000 students in 2013), making the university the national leader in education abroad in Australia and one of the largest universities around the world for student participation in study abroad.
Since 2014, he has worked in Washington, DC, leading the University of Melbourne’s global development initiatives in the United States. Raised and educated in Australia, he twice studied abroad in the US as an undergraduate at RMIT University in Melbourne and lived and worked in Colorado after graduating from RMIT in 2001. He also earned a Master of International Business from the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne in 2006.
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