Selected list of Melanie's training clients

Dr. Melanie Billings-Yun

Melanie Billings-Yun founded and was senior partner of Global Resolutions, an international consulting firm providing negotiation strategies, representation and training to international business, government agencies and individual clients. Formerly a research director and lecturer on history at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Melanie has spent most of the past two decades assisting Western and Asian companies, NGOs and public agencies in improving their internal and external relationships through negotiation. Her list of training clients includes many of the world's leading companies.

Melanie has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in diplomatic history, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a B.S. with high honors from Portland State University. She is the author of Decision Against War (Columbia University Press, 1988), as well as numerous articles on negotiation, mediation and dispute resolution. She regularly speaks to professional associations and business conferences around the world about negotiation and relationship management.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Melanie has lived and worked in London, Paris, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Indonesia and Singapore. She currently works from Washington, DC, and teaches at the Master of International Management program at Portland State University.

Selected list of Melanie's past training clients

3M ABB Aberdeen Asset Management American Chamber of Commerce Bain & Co. Bank of Korea BASF Boston Consulting Group Cerebos Citibank Clorox Coutts Bank Daewoo Electronics Deutsche Bank Digi Telekom European Union Chamber of Commerce Federation of Korean Industries Henkel Hewlett Packard Hyundai Electronics Kellogg's KEPCO Korea High Speed Rail Commission

Korea International Trade Association LG Construction Law Society of Singapore L'Oreal Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley Oracle Prudential Securities Reckitt Benckiser Samsung Electronics SembCorp Power Siam Cement Siam Commercial Bank Siemen's Sime Darby Singapore Land Authority SMRT Standard Chartered Bank Thomson Reuters Time Warner Tullet Prebon Unocal Veolia Water