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Director, Executive Education Previous Position: Senior Staff Member, Center for Public Policy Education, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (1976-2003); Associate director of the Center (1982-87; Acting director, 1987. In her current position at George Mason, Ms. Littell is engaged in developing a variety of executive education programs. These include both open enrollment seminars and programs that are customized for specific clients. Programs designed and delivered at George Mason (2004-5) include three executive seminars for Verizon Corporation managers on the federal regulatory process in telecommunications policy, seminars for Department of Defense officials on the security and defense capabilities of the European Union, and a series of seminars for the Federal Broadcasting Information Service on the role of the media in Europe, the Middle East, and Asian countries. Ms. Littell has also been a member of the faculty team that designed and delivered two seminars for the Inspector General Management Institute—one three-day seminar on Congressional oversight and a two-day seminar on Media relations. Previous experience at The Brookings Institution included designed and organizing executive programs both in the U.S. and abroad that concentrated on the U.S. political system, policymaking processes, and global political and economic issues. Clients have included leading U.S. business schools such as the MIT Sloan School of Management, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Kenan-Flagler School of Business at University of North Carolina, and Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management. Corporate partnerships have included Verizon Corporation, British Telecommunications, AT&T, IBM, Ericsson, and many others over a period of 25 years. Subject matter of the seminars has ranged across key domestic and international policies, tailored to the needs and interests of the client. Ms. Littell has also created many international training programs and seen them through all phases of program design and implementation. Examples include: a four week training program for a high level group of European, American and Japanese managers held on three continents and an Annual Seminar on the European Union held in Paris and later in Brussels (1989-2003).She has partnered with many international organizations to deliver training programs including the European Institute of Public Administration (The Netherlands); The Council on the US-Italy (Rome) and SITRA (a research organization in Finland which trained the top leadership of the country and brought them to the US for intensive educational seminars) and the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Education: College of William and Mary, B.A. Political Science. |
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