Michael Snow has been the Executive Director of AHEC since 1999. Michael oversees the Council's promotional programmes around the globe and manages AHEC's overseas offices and staff in Europe, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, India, Hong Kong and China. Before this, he handled the European, Chinese and Japanese markets as AHEC's programme Manager. Michael holds a Master's Degree in International Economics from the George Washington University, and a BA inDevelopmental Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Before joining AHEC, Michael served as a consultant on international education and travel programmes for the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Associates, and spent several years in Seville, Spain teaching economics courses in English and Spanish for the University of Wisconsin System.