The Forum on Education Abroad, US. Melissa Torres is President and CEO of The Forum on Education Abroad with two decades of experience in higher education and program development. She previously served as Vice President for Academic Programs at IES Abroad where she supervised 36 international study abroad centers in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Her campus-based experience includes leading a variety of international initiatives for Brown University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Ohio State University. She worked as a change management consultant for Accenture, and most recently developed innovative, service-learning programs as Vice President of Institutional Relations at Global Vision International.