Our Team
Reza Fakhari
President/CEO
Prior to assuming this position, Reza served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Global Citizenship Alliance for 8 years. He was elected to the Amnesty International USA Board of Directors in 2014 and served as Vice Chair and then Chair of the Board. He served as Chair of the Board of Student World Assembly which aimed to engage students from all over the world in critical reflection and new thinking about pressing global issues. He served as Vice President for Internationalization and a professor of international politics at St. Francis College in New York City where he led the comprehensive internationalization of the College and continues as a member of the teaching faculty. Prior to St. Francis, he served for 30 years in progressively responsible roles at LaGuardia Community College and Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY) as professor, director, dean, associate provost, and vice president. He has also taught at Fordham University, Vassar College, Rutgers University, and International Pacific College in New Zealand. He holds a Ph.D., with Honors, in International Relations from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Jochen Fried
Senior Advisor
Jochen was the founding President/CEO of the Global Citizenship Alliance. Prior to assuming this position, he was Director of Education at Salzburg Global Seminar, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining programs that highlight the pivotal role of education in building resilient and equitable societies, including the Global Citizenship Program and the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. He also held the positions of Head of Programs at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and of senior officer at the secretariat of the German Higher Education and Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat). After earning a doctorate in German literature at Düsseldorf University, Germany, he was a lecturer at Cambridge University and Ljubljana University, and a visiting scholar at various universities and colleges in the United States including Smith College in Northampton, MA, San José State University, CA, Bronx Community College, NY, and Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. He has worked in more than twenty countries on behalf of national and international organizations and has published widely on various topics related to higher education policy and global civil society.
Stephanie Doscher
Senior Fellow for Program Development & Engagement
Stephanie Doscher, Ed.D., is an internationally recognized scholar-practitioner and senior leader in higher education internationalization, specializing in curriculum innovation, academic partnerships, and institutional capacity building. She currently serves as Senior Fellow with the Global Citizenship Alliance of Salzburg Global and as Executive Board member of COIL Connect. Dr. Doscher’s research and practice focus on the relationship between diversity and knowledge production across global boundaries. Her scholarly contributions include co-authoring The Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange (Routledge, 2022) and Making Global Learning Universal: Promoting Inclusion and Success for All Students (Routledge & NAFSA, 2018), as well as hosting the Making Global Learning Universal Podcast. Recent publications include “Curriculum Internationalization in the Digital Age” in Digital Internationalization: Beyond Virtual Exchange (Routledge, 2023) and articles in the Journal of International Students, EAIE Forum, and the International Association of Universities’ Handbook of Internationalisation of Higher Education. Her global learning assessment rubrics contributed to the development of the OECD PISA Global Competence Framework. As an internationalization researcher and consultant, Dr. Doscher works with institutions worldwide to advance global learning initiatives through professional development and advising for COIL virtual exchange, integrative curriculum design, and transformational organizational leadership and partnership building. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Administration and Supervision from Florida International University, an M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Western Washington University, and a B.A. in History and Theater Studies from Emory University.
Alice Seeger
General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Alice is an attorney who focuses her practice on representing small businesses and nonprofit organizations on a wide variety of issues, and businesses and individuals on succession and estate planning issues. She earned her B.B.A. (with honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1984. After graduation, she worked for IBM for a few years before heading to the University of Texas, School of Law in Austin. Alice was awarded her Juris Doctorate (with honors) in 1989, and inducted into the Order of the Coif. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Transitional School (CTS) since 2010. CTS is a nonprofit private school in Portland for children pre-kindergarten through 8th grade whose families are either homeless or in transitional housing. Since 2012, Alice has held the office of Secretary of the CTS Board of Directors and has been an active member of its Executive Committee. Alice has been the GCA General Counsel since 2015.
Adam Beeson
Advisor, Enrollment and Strategy for Latin America & Alumni Relations
Adam is responsible for driving enrollment and engagement strategy in Latin America. He is an alumnus of the Global Citizenship Alliance and previously served in a number of roles for Salzburg Global. Adam has nearly two decades of international school teaching and leadership experience in Europe and the Americas. He is currently Strategic Enrollment Director for New Summit Academy Costa Rica and is actively involved in the wider field of international and independent school education, adding his insight as a presenter at conferences such as the International Baccalaureate Global Conference of the Americas (IB), The Small Boarding Schools Association (SBSA), The Boarding Schools Association (BSA), and The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS). Adam previously served as an IB Examiner and member of the International Schools Anti-Discrimination Taskforce, and he is a contributor to various publications, including the International Schools Network, School Management Plus, International Schools Magazine and the Wellbeing in International Schools Magazine. He received his M.A. in International Education from the University of Bath (United Kingdom), a B.A. in English from Brevard College (USA) and an International Teacher Certificate from the European Council of International Schools.