Cloe Liparini, MA

Senior Advisor for Leadership Development Programs; Course Director, Leadership and Management; Lecturer, Faculty of Global Health Delivery

Cloe Liparini has over twenty years of experience designing and delivering culturally inclusive programs to increase leadership effectiveness and collaboration across boundaries. She has developed youth engagement, peacebuilding, and diversity and inclusion programs that focus on effective leadership through leadership of self and teams. Her experience spans higher education, NGO, corporate, and health care sectors. Mrs. Liparini is based in Geneva, Switzerland and is the Senior Advisor for Leadership Development Programs and a lecturer in the master’s degree and Executive Education programs at the University. She is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Intercultural Interventions and volunteers with numerous youth initiatives focused on leadership development, peace-building, and social innovation. Prior to her work with the University of Global Health Equity, she held numerous positions at Duke University. She was Associate Director of the Duke Global Policy and Governance program in Geneva, oversaw training and student development with the DukeEngage program, a global civic engagement initiative, and was the Assistant Director for Programs and Training with the International House. Her passion and commitment to leadership development and social change were catalyzed by her own early experiences as an Amigos de las Americas volunteer in the Dominican Republic, an Americorps VISTA member in New York, a Youth and Development Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia, and an International Development Fellow with Catholic Relief Services in Armenia. Mrs. Liparini holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Bard College and an MA in Intercultural Relations from the SIT Graduate Institute.