Staff - Office of Global Affairs

Mitch Leventhal, Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs 

Prior to his appointment at SUNY, Dr. Mitch Leventhal served as vice provost for international affairs at the University of Cincinnati, with responsibilities for global strategy, institutional collaboration, international recruitment, and curricular internationalization. Reporting units included international planning, programs and services. Beyond education, Dr. Leventhal has extensive international experience across many industry verticals, including shipping, chemicals, finance, insurance, information technology, and technology transfer. He is widely recognized as a leader in international student recruitment strategy, enterprise-wide data systems, consortium-based initiatives, and public-private partnerships.

Previous positions include founder and president of the Microstate Corporation, adjunct assistant professor of Information Management Systems at The George Washington University, founding CEO of the Intellectual Property Technology Exchange (a spinoff from Yale University), and co-founder and vice president for strategic initiatives at Planet Payment, Inc., a multi-currency payment processing company. Immediately prior to his last position at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Leventhal headed US-Canada operations for IDP, a firm then owned by Australian universities.

Dr. Leventhal is a founder of the American International Recruitment Council (AIRC), serves as Executive Director of the UCosmic Consortium, and is Senior Advisor on Academic Affairs to the United Nations Global Compact. He sits on numerous other commissions and boards, including those of two Confucius Institutes. Leventhal earned a bachelor’s degree and masters degree in Comparative & Developmental Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in the International Political Economy of Education from the University of Chicago.

        Phone: 212-317-3546
        Email: mitch.leventhal@suny.edu

Sally Crimmins Villela is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs of the State University of New York. Ms. Crimmins Villela’s areas of responsibility include collaborative international academic programs and research, study abroad, international recruiting and international scholarship programs, among other things.  She oversees several externally funded grant and scholarship programs which support joint research, professional development in international education and study abroad.   She is also responsible for SUNY’s overseas offices in Mexico, Russia and Turkey. 

Ms. Crimmins Villela was previously the Senior Associate Director of SUNY’s Office of International Programs, and prior to that, Director of Programs for Latin America, during which time she worked to establish SUNY’s office in Mexico City.  Before coming to the Office of International Programs, she resided in Mexico where she served as Deputy Chief-of-Party of SUNY’s Center for International Development’s Mexican Congressional Support Project.  Prior to that, she worked as a Staff Associate at the Center for International Development on projects in Brazil and Hungary, during which time she worked on the establishment of the International Education Institute of Brazil, a now-independent NGO which carries on the work initiated by the grant-funded project.  

Ms. Crimmins has studied, worked and resided in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Portugal and has taught Portuguese language at both Union College and the University at Albany, and English as a Foreign Language at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil.  She attended the University at Albany where she received her BA in Spanish Linguistics, conducted MS studies in TESOL and advanced graduate studies in language acquisition and education.

        Phone: 518-320-1289
        Email: sally.crimmins@suny.edu
 

 Kathleen Bardolf, Director of Business Affairs