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She has eighteen years experience in business and competitive analysis in, and evaluation and assessment of, the telecom and technology market, having worked on several high profile projects during her career, which includes the International Bureau of the US Federal Communications Commission, MCI Communications, and New York City Government. Ms. Hellerstein has vast experience as an international consultant with developing countries and in particular with post-conflict countries. She has worked on several rural connectivity projects, ICT, telecom liberalization projects, and participated and/or organized in workshops on competition policy, liberalization, next generation technology, particularly Voice over IP, and broadband policy issues for regulators and high-level government officials in the US, Africa, and Latin America. She is also a non-Bank member of the World Bank's e-Development Services Thematic Group, participating in and organizing videoconferences and other events in this field.

Judith Hellerstein has a Masters in Public Administration from the Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York City, where she focused on International Development and was awarded the prestigious Public Fellowship Award.

REN? ADRIAN BUSTILLO, Associate
Mr. Bustillo is an expert in telecommunications law and regulation with broad experience in the fields of Project Management, Strategic Planning of Public Sector Reform, Telecom Operations, ICT, and Internet & Network Services. He has spent most of his career working on Telecom and ICT issues in Bolivia and in other Latin American countries. Presently he is working as Project Director for the Strategic Planning development for INDOTEL, the telecom regulator in the Dominican Republic, and acting as the leader of a team of consultants Hispanoamericana de Cibercomunicaciones, S.L. (CIBERTELE). This one-year task, is part of the Telecom Sector Reform Program in the Dominican Republic, and includes the development of 13 rules and regulations for INDOTEL for number portability, multi-carrier implementation, account separation, resale, IP telephony, digital television, dispute settlement, and other.

During his 22 year professional career Mr. Bustillo worked at several posts at SITTEL (Bolivia's top Telecom Regulatory Authority). In January 2003, he was appointed Superintendent of Telecommunications of SITTEL (rank equivalent to Minister) by the President of Bolivia to carry forward the telecom sector reforms implanted since 1995. Mr. Bustillo is a dual citizen (U.S. and Bolivian), and speaks Spanish (Native Proficiency), English (Advanced Professional Proficiency), and German (General Proficiency).

DR. DEREK G GILL, Associate
Derek G. Gill is an Associate and is also Founder, President, and CEO of FiberSat Telecommunications Corp., a provider of information technology and telecommunications services to enterprise and governmental customers. Dr. Gill has more than 20 years business experience at COMSAT, Verizon, FLAG Telecom, 360 Networks prior to founding his company.

Dr. Gill's expertise is in designing and building global satellite and fiber optic telecommunications infrastructures to link the developed and developing worlds to facilitate information exchange, economic cooperation, foreign investment, and international trade and development. He also has vast experience in performing cost/benefit analyses of alternative sales, marketing, and product and pricing strategies in the global telecommunications market and in conducting research to understand the drivers of demand and supply for global telecommunications capacity.

DR. PETER KNIGHT, Associate
Peter Knight is an economist, training strategist, and e-government specialist with broad international experience in distance education, e-government, telecommunications reform, electronic media, training strategy/evaluation, international banking, foundation work, teaching, and research. He has extensive high-level contacts in Africa (especially South Africa), Latin America (especially Brazil and Peru), and Eastern Europe and Asia (especially Russia).

Before joining the private sector, Dr. Knight led the Electronic Media Center at the World Bank from (June 1994-February 1997), and before that for six years was Chief of the National Economic Management Division in the Bank's Economic Development Institute (EDI), now called the World Bank Institute. His World Bank career spanned over 20 years, with more than eight devoted exclusively to work on Brazil. He became the World Bank's Lead Economist for Brazil in 1987. Before joining the World Bank in 1976 he held positions at Cornell University, the Ford Foundation (based in Lima, Peru) and the Brookings Institution (where he worked on studies of Latin American economic integration in collaboration with research institutes in most Latin American countries, including Brazil and Peru). His dissertation research was conducted in Brazil. In 1997 he co-founded Knight-Moore Telematics for Education and Development (www.knight-moore.com).

In 2001, Dr. Knight founded and a Brazilian IT corporation, Telem?tica e Desenvolvimento Ltda. (www.tedbr.com) in Rio de Janiero, and within seven months was named to the Telecommunications and Information Technology Council of the Associa??o Comercial do Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Knight also writes regularly in Portuguese for the Brazilian financial sector magazine Banco Hoje, on topics linking ICT with economic and social development. He has consulted on e-government and distance education for the state governments of Rio de Janeiro and Paran? and conducted lectures on these topics at academic, research, and business institutions in S?o Paulo.

Dr. Knight has published extensively in various languages, including Portuguese and Spanish. He is a member of the Board of the Journal of E-Government, and has extensive contacts in the e-government circles, especially in Brazil, where he was a speaker at the last Public Informatics Congress (CONIP) in June 2004 (he participated in the previous two CONIPs), and Peru. He is also a non-Bank member of the World Bank's e-Development Services Thematic Group, participating in and organizing videoconferences and other events in this field.

STEVE MAYS, Associate
Steve Mays has over 13 years of professional experience in telecommunications, IT, regulation, security policy, and program leadership. Mr. Mays has worked in Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, and North America on various telecom regulatory, IT/Telecom convergence and development projects and is extremely experienced in reviewing proposed legislation, regulations, decrees, rules, and procedures. Mr. Mays has experience in six countries on seven projects in telecommunications, privatization, competition analysis, spectrum management, and convergent technologies. Mr. Mays speaks fluent Spanish and English.