International Experience

EUROPE
Belgium: made presentations about American telecommunications at two conferences held in Brusselds, May 1995, December 1997.
Britain: made three presentations about changing American telecommunications policies at conferences concerning equipment standardization, London, 1995-97.

Central Europe: (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland) Non-government member of a State Department/AID team visit to develop training programs for new telecommunications regulators. Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw, January 1993.

France: Visiting professor, Institute of International Studies, University of Toulouse I, May 1995; offered an addvanced seminar on American telecommunications industry and policy. French Telecom/Direction de Lenseignement Superieur des Telecommunications. Paris, Evry, and Brest, June 1988.

Monaco: Delivered invited paper on changing U.S. telecommunications ownership policy for “Monacom 96" international conference, March 1996.
Spain: invited talk on the development of American radio at conference on “Radio USA 1984,” Center for North American Studies, Barcelona, June 1984.

THE AMERICAS
Canada: co-directed a conference on Policy Issues in the Canadian-American Information Sector, McGill University, Montreal, November 1983.
Chile: Consultant team member suggesting revisions in Chilean telecommunications basic law for Inter-American Development Bank and Chilean Ministry of Economics and Subministry of Telecommunications. Santiago, December 1991.

Venezuela: Designed a graduate telecommunications curriculum on behalf of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Returned two years later to teach an advanced course in international standards and communications policy at University of Simon Bolivar, Caracas, October 1982 and November 1984.

Washington, DC: Presentation once or twice a year surveying U.S. telecommunications policy for Foreign Service Officers training program, U.S. Department of State, 1994 to present; brief seminar on American telecommunication industry and policy, U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), for visiting Third World/Eastern European groups, 1989 to present; “Information USA,” selected 400 volume and 50 periodical library for the USIA-sponsored exhibit held in nine cities of the USSR, and assisted in training of docent/hosts, 1987; offered international communications issues seminar for USIA junior foreign service officers, 1985-87.

ASIA
Hong Kong: Four invited lectures on American multimedia and information policy to business and academic groups, and participated in a workshop for the then-colony’s telecommunications regulatory authority, October 1996.