This study aimed to explore the influence of international education experience on women's leadership in higher education, focusing on the Saudi Arabia context. I examined the impact of international education on Saudi women's academic leadership in terms of three dimensions, which were (a) cultural, (b) global, and (c) communication competencies. Using the data obtained from an online survey, this study utilized exploratory factor analysis to identify the underlying relationships between the items and specify the factors for each dimension of Saudi women's academic leadership. Given the answers from the respondents, this study demonstrated that cross-cultural adaptation was the retained factor indicating self-perceived cultural competency, international professional knowledge was the controlled factor indicating self-perceived global competency, and lacking confidence, willingness to interact, as well as self-control was the retained three factors indicating the self-perceived communication competency dimension of the women academic leadership in Saudi higher education. In addition, this study utilized regression analyses to test the impact of international education experience on the retained factors. The empirical results showed that the international education experience improved women faculty's cultural and global competencies in Saudi higher education. In addition, however, international education experience partly improved the communication competency levels of the Saudi women faculty. This study concluded that international education experience is essential to Saudi women's academic leadership because, as the findings showed, Saudi women faculty who studied abroad have higher academic leadership competencies than those without international education experience. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]