Wolfgang Schlör is the Interim Associate Provost for International Affairs and Director of International Programs and Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Schlör joined Illinois in August 2007 as Associate Director of International Programs and Studies. Previously, he served as the Interim Director of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as Associate Director and Assistant Director for Academic Affairs of UCIS.

Schlör has held research and postdoctoral appointments at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; and the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1994 to 1996, he served in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh as the US Director of the International Affairs Network, a major project to develop international affairs training capacity in Central and Eastern Europe.

Schlör holds PhD (Dr.Phil.) and M.A. (Dipl.Pol.) degrees in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin. In the years after receiving his doctorate, he researched and published on the topics of German and US security policies, transatlantic relations, and conventional arms control. More recently, he has been involved in international education research, including leading a federally funded national survey of institutional practices on underrepresented groups in international education.

Schlör is a member of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), the Commission on International Programs in the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs
Suite 401
507 E. Green Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 333-6104
Fax: (217) 265-0810
Email: ips@illinois.edu