Beverly Barrett

Assistant Director, Human-Centered AI Institute University of Houston, Bauer College of Business

Beverly Barrett is a policy specialist and educator in international economics. With a focus on institutional change, she specializes in institutional governance and organizational adaptations in business and education. She has served as faculty at the University of Houston, teaching global business and public policy, and at the University of St. Thomas, teaching international economics. Dr. Barrett earned her doctorate in International Studies at the University of Miami in Florida, in a fellowship with the European Union Center of Excellence. Prior she graduated from Vanderbilt University (B.S. cum laude in Human & Organizational Development) and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) (M.A. in International Relations). 

Her professional experience includes periods of service at the White House (Office of Cabinet Affairs), State Department (in Finland and Jamaica) and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch. She has studied in Spain and Italy, and worked in Finland, Mexico, and Jamaica. She has served as Visiting Faculty in International Business at Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP), a U.S.-accredited university in Mexico. She hosted the podcast Global Bridges: Changing Flows of People and Trade in the years immediately following the pandemic. 

Her research on globalization and higher education includes her book project Globalization and Change in Higher Education: The Political Economy of Policy Reform in Europe. This is about the Bologna Process that established the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) for the international recognition of qualifications. This focuses on the European Union (EU) trade area, common market, institutional change, and the international recognition of higher education qualifications in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the Bologna Process.