Chris Roper

Senior Program Manager

Chris’s fascination with Asia began as a child when, at the age of 5, he accompanied his family on a 6-month tour of the region during which he skateboarded through the botanical gardens of Jakarta and learned to eat Chinese food with a pair of pint-sized chopsticks. During college, Chris studied for a semester in Qingdao, China, where he practiced with the women’s volleyball team, and though a foot taller than anyone else on the team, he was the worst player on the field. Fluent in Mandarin, Chris also learned Vietnamese in graduate school, where he studied Sino-Vietnamese border trade. Since joining Academic Travel Abroad, where he designs our programs to Asia, Chris has enjoyed traveling to China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bhutan, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and India.