Victoria Fontan

Victoria Fontan is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the American University of Afghanistan. She specializes in Higher Education in emergency settings, and is also Co-chair of the Alliance for the Education of Women in Afghanistan, an alliance of 32 organizations and groups engaged in safeguarding and expanding access to quality education for women and girls in Afghanistan.

Prior to her appointment to Afghanistan, she coordinated the establishment of the quality framework for HPass, the LinkedIn-type platform for humanitarian workers and volunteers. Since August 2021, she has been focusing on the student and academic affairs implications of managing