 Rock is vice president for global engagement at Arizona State University. His office is focused on enhancing and expanding ASU’s global programs and presence and the international dimensions of three essential themes: knowledge acquisition, research and strategic engagement.
Rock originally joined the university as special adviser to President Michael Crow for strategic international initiatives. Before coming to ASU, Rock served 30 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, attaining the rank of minister-counselor and retiring as acting assistant secretary of state for science, technology, environment and health affairs. Rock also served for four years as principal deputy assistant secretary of state and, simultaneously for two years, as deputy assistant secretary for science and health. Prior to joining the diplomatic corps, Rock was a physical scientist and coordinator for international research with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also held the position of international director of the National Sea Grant Program. Rock received his undergraduate training at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University in the life sciences and psychology. His graduate training and research were at George Washington University in science and technology policy and Columbia University’s Lamont Earth Observatory in marine geophysics. He is a graduate of the 43rd Senior Seminar, the federal government’s highest-level civilian/military joint training program. Rock also served in the United States Merchant Marines. |  Fairfax is associate vice president for global engagement and director of the Center for Global Education Services in ASU’s Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement. She oversees academic programs for student mobility and the development of strategic initiatives to internationalize the student experience and to enhance and expand ASU’s global programs and presence.
Prior to joining ASU, Fairfax was director of the Office of Study Abroad at Michigan State University for seven years and served in similar roles at Purdue University and Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was a tenured Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, serving in Washington, D.C. and at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. She holds a master’s degree in political science/international relations from Indiana University/Bloomington and a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Fairfax is a member of NAFSA The Association of International Educators, the Council on International Educational Exchange and the Forum on Education Abroad. She also serves on the Academic Consortium Board for the London-based Centres for Academic Programs Abroad. |
|  Gillies is the assistant to the vice president for global engagement.
She was born and educated in England. Before moving to the United States, she lived in Tehran, Iran for seven years where she worked for the United Nations Development Program and was evacuated in 1979. She returned to the United Kingdom and after six months, relocated to Rye, New York where she worked in the Development and Alumni Office for a pre-K through grade 12 independent school in Rye for 22 years before moving to Arizona in 2003. Since moving to Arizona and before joining ASU Global, Gillies worked for the ASU Foundation and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Development Office. |  Feinson’s work focuses on science, technology and social outcomes.
Prior to joining ASU, he was associate director of the New Israel Fund in New York City, working on outreach and development for projects in the areas of civil society, democracy and human rights. He also served as deputy director of Columbia University’s Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes and as a program manager at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He holds a master’s in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brandeis University. |
|  Kallestad is director of outreach and administration for the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement at Arizona State University. Her broad portfolio includes outreach, development and administration.
Kallestad facilitates external and campus outreach, organizes and implements high-profile, internationally focused university events, including lectures and visits by international and U.S. diplomats, government officials and other VIPs. Prior to joining OVPGE, Kallestad served in the Office of the President at ASU as program manager for strategic international initiatives and as coordinator for outreach and special projects. She has more than 15 years of university administrative experience and holds a master’s degree in management from the University of Mary and a bachelor’s in business administration from Dickinson State University. Kallestad is a member of the Corporate Sponsor Board of the Arizona World Affairs Council and serves on the Phoenix Council on Foreign Relations Program Committee. |  Barnett is professor of marketing emeritus at Stetson University where he served as the Dennis M. McNamara Chair in Marketing and as the director of the Stetson Business Summer School Abroad, Innsbruck, Austria.
He has presented and published papers with a number associations and academic journals including: Southern Marketing Association, Academy of Business Education, the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific, African Studies Association, Marketing Education Review, Journal of Education for Business, Journal of Family Business, Retail Education Today, Advising Quarterly, International Journal of Business Disciplines and E-Business Review. Barnett’s past experience includes: president and CEO of Henson Furniture (a 22-store chain), director of the executive education programs at Emory University, principal of Furniture Brokers Inc., visiting professor at the Citadel in Charleston S.C. and extensive blue-water sailing. Barnett’s current charge is to support the spirit and process of creative risk-taking of entrepreneurial faculty members, academic departments and ASU schools and colleges as they seek to create and/or implement innovative degree and non-degree educational programs for international students. He earned his doctorate at Georgia State University. |
 Arndt administers and controls the business operations functions for the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement (OVPGE).
Her functions include budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, staff supervision, internal procedures and other duties designated by the vice president and/or the director of OVPGE. Arndt is an ASU alumna. She graduated from ASU with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. Immediately after graduation she worked for ten years as an auditor, specializing in emerging business services for a large, international accounting firm. She also taught accounting and worked as a controller for a natural foods cooperative prior to returning to ASU as the business manager for the International Programs Office (now Center for Global Education Services). In 2007 she joined OVPGE in her current position. Prior to entering the accounting profession, Arndt studied German, Spanish and French. She traveled extensively throughout Europe and spent a summer abroad in Mexico while studying Mexican folk dance. |  Luebker works with OVPGE leadership and colleagues to develop and implement a comprehensive communications and marketing strategy for ASU’s global initiatives and programs, in coordination with other units and individuals around the university and among university partners and constituent groups.
He came to ASU from Michigan State University, where he served for as a speechwriter and communications manager for the university provost and president and later as editor of the faculty/staff newspaper. He has more than thirty years’ experience in advertising, direct marketing and public relations. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Luebker was a tenured Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency. He served in Washington, D.C. and at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, where he was part of the speechwriting team for Ambassador John D. Negroponte. Luebker has a degree in English/professional writing from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls and has operated a freelance design/communications business since 1976. |
