Vivien Stewart is senior education advisor and former vice president at Asia Society, where she has been leading a national effort to prepare American students and educators for the interconnected world of the 21st century. She has worked with schools around the country to broaden students' educational experiences to prepare them for work and citizenship in a global age. She has worked with states to adapt their policies to a global knowledge economy, and she has developed resources for teachers to use to promote global knowledge and skills. Stewart has also used her unique international background in education to bring together education leaders from different countries to share expertise on how to respond to the rapid transformations of globalization and the need for world-class educational systems.

Prior to Asia Society, Stewart was director of education programs at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she developed initiatives to improve early childhood and youth development and managed a series of influential national education task forces. She has also been a senior policy advisor at the United Nations and a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, and she is an internationally known writer on education. She serves on the boards of a number of national education organizations.