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Jennifer Hilton Montero
Jennifer Hilton Montero is an international and intercultural collaboration expert and scholar-practitioner "pracademic" with over 10 years of executive and management experience in international and higher education, global student mobility, and public and international affairs. She is a bilingual, multicultural executive and researcher strong in results-driven collaboration, relationship-building, strategic planning, training, speaking, and leading a team towards achieving a strong and diverse global portfolio. She is highly experienced with partnerships, program/project development, management, and training. Her professional passions are collaboration and intercultural understanding towards a united world community.
Ms. Hilton Montero is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Florida International University in the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs Department of Public Policy and Administration. Ms. Hilton Montero is slated to receive her doctorate in Fall of 2021. Her research agenda focuses on Collaboration for Public Services: Explaining Outputs and Outcomes. Ms. Hilton Montero's research is positioned across the fields of public administration, political science, and policy studies connecting collaborative processes to collaborative outputs/outcomes, identifying its limitations, and tracing a research agenda for a better understanding of how organizational processes influence collaborative results.
Ms. Hilton Montero previously served as the Director of the Office of Global Initiatives and the grant writer and Associate Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the College of Business, Florida International University located in Miami, Florida. She served in this executive director-level role managing a diverse global portfolio of international education programs with 60+ partners in 30+ countries. She also co-chaired and led the strategy committee for the FIU Global Strategy 2025 Framework. Jennifer has worked for companies such as Ernst and Young Chile as well as for AACSB International in international project management roles. Jennifer also has experience in nonprofit organizations in the diversity and inclusion sector as well as in professional cultural and business associations such as the Chile-US Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. Hilton Montero received her Bachelors of Arts in International Studies and Spanish with honors in 2004 from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. She completed her Masters of Arts in Intercultural Relations with specializations in International Education and Intercultural Training and Consulting in 2006 from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jennifer lived and worked in Chile for three years, has traveled extensively internationally including across South America, Europe, and Asia, and is fluent in Spanish and English.
Jennifer is passionate about the role of cross-cultural understanding in fostering a united world community.
