Brendan, who reports to Vice Provost for Global Strategy Steven Wilkinson, has overall responsibility for providing administrative support for the international activities of the schools, programs, and individual faculty across the university. These efforts focus on supporting the development of new projects with partner universities, particularly to expedite the contributions of other Yale offices during the start-up phase and during troubleshooting, managing visits to Yale by university delegations and other dignitaries, and safeguarding Yale’s reputation around the world. He also leads the university’s emergency response in the event of a medical emergency, natural disaster, or civil unrest that happens abroad. Brendan serves as the director of the Office of International Affairs and in addition, the offices of International Students and Scholars and Yale Young Global Scholars also report to him.

Formerly the director of international affairs in the Provost’s Office at Stanford University, Walsh’s accomplishments there included founding the Stanford Office of International Affairs in 2011 and his involvement in leading the university’s international engagement efforts since that time. He was also instrumental in the launch and management of the Stanford Center at Peking University, as well as negotiations to open the Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus in South Korea. He developed Stanford’s International Research Exploration Fund, a proof-of-concept seed funding initiative to incentivize new global partnerships and increase funding for graduate student field research conducted alongside faculty. In addition to hosting dozens of visiting delegations each year, working with faculty to develop new partnerships, and staffing university committees at Stanford, Walsh also created two university-wide funding portals, for students and faculty, established the university’s International Response Team, and formed Stanford’s first International Academy to prepare all students for their international experiences. 

At Yale, he will continue his active involvement in the Ivy+ Global meetings, where he was highly regarded by peers for the contribution of his knowledge of global engagement issues, constructive suggestions, and solutions during his time at Stanford.

Prior to joining Stanford, Walsh served as a senior program officer at the U.S. Department of State, where he implemented two presidential and two congressional initiatives. He earned his Ph.D. in international education from New York University.

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