David L. Di Maria has worked as an international education scholar-practitioner for more than twenty years. He is currently Senior International Officer and Associate Vice Provost for International Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he leads UMBC’s institutional strategy for global engagement while overseeing a diverse portfolio of programs, projects and initiatives that support the international dimensions of teaching, research and service. Prior to joining UMBC, Di Maria served as Associate Provost for International Programs at Montana State University, Director of International Programs and Services at Kent State University and Assistant Director of International Student and Scholar Services at St. Cloud State University. 

Di Maria is widely published within the field of international education. Among his more than fifty publications are three books published by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, including Achieving More with Less: Lean Management in the International Student Office, Senior International Officers: Essential Roles and Responsibilities and Managing a Successful International Admissions Office: NAFSA’s Guide to International Admissions. He is also the editor of a fourth book, published by STAR Scholars Press, Entry Points to U.S. Education: Accessing the Next Wave of Growth. He serves on the Editorial Board of Internationalisation of Higher Education: Policy and Practice and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of International Students.

Di Maria has held multiple volunteer leadership positions within the field of international education. These include chair of NAFSA's International Education Leadership (IEL) Knowledge Community, chair of NAFSA's International Enrollment Management (IEM) Knowledge Community and founding faculty for NAFSA’s Executive Internationalization Leadership e-Institute. Outside of NAFSA, Di Maria has worked to advance the field as president of AIRC: The Association of International Enrollment Management, founding faculty for AIRC’s Professional Certificate in International Recruitment and Enrollment Planning, faculty for the Association of International Education Administrators’ (AIEA) Leadership Academy for New Senior International Officers, member of the American Council on Education’s Commission on Internationalization and Global Engagement and member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ Commission on International Initiatives. 

Di Maria earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and he studied abroad at the University of Tartu in Estonia. His doctorate, which he received from the University of Minnesota, focused on internationalization from a P-16 perspective.