DI LANDAU

Di Landau is President of Global Resources. Her expertise is in telecommunications and information technology business planning and project management, particularly in developing and emerging nations.

Ms. Landau brings close to twenty years of experience to the field. Her consulting and training activities have included work with the Agence des Telecommunications de Cote d'Ivoire, AT&T, British Telecom, the Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of Southern California, Coopers & Lybrand, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique, Ultrapro International, Inc., the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, World Bank, the World Trade Institute, among other international clients. Ms. Landau has analyzed, planned and managed projects in over forty countries, most recently working with government clients in Cote d'Ivoire, China, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius, the Philippines, and Poland. She has designed and managed business and infrastructure development projects involving partnerships between public and private sector organizations, consortiums, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international banks, and funding institutions. Ms. Landau has trained senior government officials and private sector managers from over sixty developing and emerging nations in telecommunications privatization planning and management, international business concepts, and strategic business planning techniques. Her field experience includes work in Africa, the Baltic Region, Central and Southeast Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the FSU, and the Middle East.

Her corporate experience includes six years with AT&T Network Systems (now Lucent Technologies), where she served as Regional Strategy and Business Development Manager for Africa, India and the Middle East. In this role, she was responsible for developing country-specific business growth plans and implementing a range of global business investments. As Senior Market Planner for Asia, she conducted market research studies and established contacts for AT&T Network System's launch into India, resulting in AT&T's first technology transfer agreement to the Subcontinent and the Corporation's commitment to open an office in New Delhi.

Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and a Master’s Degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; her degrees include coursework at MIT and Harvard Business School in addition to her technical telecommunications training. Ms. Landau speaks and reads French, is a member of several international development organizations, and serves as a guest instructor at the University of California-Irvine's Graduate School of Management.

Ms. Landau is the developer and a co-author of Chronicles of Corporate Change: Management Lessons from AT&T and Its Offspring, a management book focusing on the managerial and leadership challenges facing institutions adapting from a regulated to a competitive industry environment.