Darden Center for Global Initiatives

Purpose Travels Well

Darden Worldwide Courses are week-long courses led by Darden faculty outside the United States in March and May. Each course provides the opportunity to visit a different country and experience its business practices and cultures firsthand. Courses include classes with leadership speakers as well as onsite visits to companies, governmental agencies and cultural sites. The videos below include footage from the Sweden Darden Worldwide Course and the Iceland Darden Worldwide Course, which took place in March 2022.

The Sweden DWC focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability. Through various meetings with Swedish entrepreneurs, government and business leaders, and company visits, students learned how the business community in Stockholm creates a robust ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Iceland DWC focused on renewable energy resources. Students explored the sources of geothermal and hydroelectric energy, the power plants that harness heat and water to deliver energy to most of the country’s population, emerging efforts to convert Iceland’s strong winds into electricity, and a cutting-edge project to capture carbon dioxide emissions and lock them into basaltic rock.

Check out more videos about global courses and experiences at Darden!

Darden’s global headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Darden has field offices in the Washington, D.C. area and Shanghai. The School also has representatives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Darden presence in Shanghai is part of the University of Virginia China Office, which strengthens the University’s academic programs, research, alumni engagement, student recruitment, and outreach to other key regions in Asia.

Charlottesville, Virginia

Office Location

100 Darden Boulevard
Charlottesville, VA 22903

+1-434-924-3900 (general main line)

Center for Global Initiatives

CGI@darden.virginia.edu

Katherine Beach
Executive Director
+1-434-243-2198
BeachK@darden.virginia.edu

Washington, D.C., Area

Greg Fairchild
Associate Dean for Washington, D.C. Area Initiatives and Academic Director of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship
+1-434-243-8879
FairchildG@darden.virginia.edu

LeAnne Berlin
Program and Administrative Coordinator, D.C. Area Initiatives
+1-719-304-1768
Berlinl@darden.virginia.edu

Contact information for the Darden team in D.C., as well as office locations and general contact information, can be found on the D.C. Contact Us page.

San Francisco Bay Area

Robyn Swift
Director, West Coast Initiatives
+1-434-227-7889
GuerinR@darden.virginia.edu

Shanghai, China

曹波 Doris Cao
Director, China Initiatives
+86-21-6437-2118
CaoD@darden.virginia.edu 

Office Location

55 West Fuxing Road, Room 101
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200031 China

复兴西路55号101室
中国上海徐汇区邮编：200031

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UVA China Office
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Weibo: weibo.com/uvachina
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Mumbai, India

Sannam S4
Hemant Das
Providing Principal Advisor services, for Darden’s India Initiatives
+91 9987951221 
DasH@darden.virginia.edu