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Kalpen Trivedi is Senior Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Commonwealth’s flagship land-grant campus, where he leads campus-wide strategy for global engagement. He also serves as the Senior Advisor for Global Strategies for the University of Massachusetts System. Trivedi has more than two decades of experience in the fields of global partnerships, program design and evaluation, global operations, and risk management. His expertise is sought by academia, governments, and professional organizations and Trivedi is a regular contributor on current topics in fora such as APLU (Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities), NAFSA (Association of International Educators), and AIEA (Association of International Education Administrators).
Recognized as one of the “50 Voices of North America” by PIE in 2023, Trivedi’s other recent distinctions include the Fulbright Fellowship (France, 2024), IIE’s Senior International Officer of the Year (2021), and the AIEA Presidential Fellowship (2019). He is a member of AIEA’s Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Committee of the Commission on International Initiatives of APLU. He has also been Chair (2022) for NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community, as well as having served as the Co-Chair of the Academic Sector for the Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). As an industry expert, Trivedi works closely with private partners, serving as Chair of the Strategic Academic Advisory Board of Academic Programs International and he is a member of the US Advisory Board of IDP Connect and the Impact Council for DA Global.
Trained as a medievalist specializing in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century religious culture in Britain, Trivedi was educated in India and the U.K., with degrees from Gujarat University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Manchester. He has served previously as the Director of Education Abroad at UMass Amherst and prior to that, as Director of the University of Georgia’s Center and programs in Oxford, U.K., and faculty member in the English Department.