Dr. Carola Weil is USC Annenberg's director for international and strategic partnerships. In this capacity, she represents the USC Annenberg School on the East Coast and abroad, and coordinates the school’s national and international applied research collaboration and executive education efforts. Until moving to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2011, she served as the school’s associate dean for planning and strategic initiatives. She also holds research faculty appointments in international relations and public diplomacy. 

Prior to joining USC Annenberg as assistant dean for strategic initiatives in November 2007, she served as senior program officer in the United States Institute for Peace grant and fellowship program in Washington, D.C., responsible for grantmaking in media, education and conflict management, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan. An expert in multicultural, interdisciplinary organizational and project development, with a special focus on gender and ethnic minority issues, Dr. Weil is the former executive director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland College Park, and former executive director of Women in International Security. She also served as program officer with the U.S. offices of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. With a research background in international and human security, foreign policy and public diplomacy, humanitarian affairs, and conflict management—particularly in sub-Saharan Africa—she has held teaching and post-doctoral fellowship appointments at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and George Washington University’s Elliott School for International Affairs, among others. 

Carola Weil is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association and Women In International Security. A dual citizen of Germany and the U.S., she holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science and an M.P.M. in public policy from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an A.B. in history from Bryn Mawr College. She is trilingual (English, German and French).