Kalpen Trivedi

Kalpen Trivedi is Senior Vice Provost for Global Affairs, responsible for leading campus-wide initiatives for global engagement and he directs the Office of Global Affairs. He also serves as a Senior Advisor on Global Strategies in the University of Massachusetts President’s Office. 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 held the Radhakrishnan Scholarship at Oxford and a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Fellowship, and his doctoral work on medieval English religious literature was supported by the UK Government’s Overseas Research Scholar award and a University of Manchester Research Scholarship. Trivedi was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to France in 2024 and has previously been a Mellon Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.

Recently named as one of the “50 Voices of North America” shaping international higher education by the Professionals in International Education (PIE), Trivedi has been previously recognized by the Institute of International Education as Senior International Officer (SIO) of the Year in 2021 and an AIEA Presidential Fellow for 2019-20. He is a member of AIEA’s Board of Directors and is immediate Past-Chair (2023) for NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Commission on International Initiatives of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). Trivedi is a regular contributor on current topics in international education in fora such as APLU, NAFSA, and AIEA.