Prof. Dan E. Davidson is an American expert in higher education and linguistics who served the Governing Board of EHU since its establishment and held Acting Chair’s office in 2012.
In 1976, Prof. Davidson co-founded the American Council of Teachers of Russian, which later has become the American Councils for International Education, one of the US leading non-profit networks promoting international education and social inclusion in more than 90 countries. Prof. Davidson is also Professor Emeritus of Russian and second language acquisition at Bryn Mawr College (PA, USA).
In 2015, Prof. Davidson was named to the Commission on Languages, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an elected foreign member of the Russian Academy of Education, the Ukrainian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, vice president of the International Association of Teachers of Russian (MAPRIAL), and past chair of the College Board World Languages Advisory Committee, the Joint National Committee for Languages, and the Alliance for International Education Exchange.
Since 2017, Prof. Davidson serves as the director of American Councils Research Center. He is the author/editor of 24 books and 65 scholarly articles in the fields of language, culture, and educational development, including a major 20-year longitudinal analysis of adult second language acquisition during study abroad.