Melanie Billings-Yun, Ph.D.

MIM Adjunct Professor

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Dr. Melanie Billings-Yun is founder and senior partner of Global Resolutions, a Singapore-based consulting firm providing negotiation strategies, assistance and training to business, government and individual clients in the Asia-Pacific region. Formerly a lecturer and research director at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Dr. Billings-Yun has assisted numerous multimillion dollar joint ventures between Asian and Western companies. She is currently teaching the International Negotiations course for the Master of International Management Program at Portland State University. Her list of corporate training clients includes Citibank, Siam Commercial Bank, Aberdeen Asset Management, McKinsey Consulting, BCG, Bain Consulting, Unocal, L'Oreal, Four Seasons Hotels, DiGi Telecommunications, Samsung, the Law Society of Singapore. She has also advised government officials in Singapore, Thailand and South Korea.

Dr. Billings-Yun has a Ph.D. (history and international conflict resolution) from Harvard University, an MSc (history, politics and law), from the London School of Economics, and graduated first in class from Portland State University. Her dissertation, Decision Against War, published by Columbia University Press, remains in print today.

Having lived 22 years in Hong Kong, Indonesia, France, South Korea, Thailand and Singapore, she has deep understanding of different cultures, primarily in Asia. In each country she has written about, advised, and taught international business strategy, relationship management and negotiation, both as a university professor and a private consultant to companies, government agencies and NGOs. She has held executive directorships in both local businesses and international non-profits. She has also mediated and negotiated a wide range of international business disputes.

Dr. Billings-Yun is an Associate Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and a Visiting Professor at the Sasin Graduate School of Business Administration in Bangkok. She is co-founder of the Professional Women's Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Korea.