MR CELEDONIO VON WUTHENAU

Director, Public Affairs, Central and Latin America Region, Alcatel Lucent

Celedonio von Wuthenau is Director, CALA Public Affairs – Americas Region of Alcatel-Lucent, based in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Alcatel-Lucent has a presence in 130 countries. Celedonio is involved in the development of the relation with government representatives and public officials and works in collaboration with CALA leaders to advance the company’s information and communications technology policy agenda throughout the CALA region. He also chairs the CALA Steering Committee for Global Government and Public Affairs.

Prior to joining the company, Celedonio was the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean with the CDMA Development Group (CDG).  Before that, he was Public Affairs Director of Lucent Technologies for South America excluding Brazil and International and Institutional Manager of the National Commission of Communications (CNC), Argentina’s telecom regulator authority. He has a rich background in external relations and public affairs in Latin America.

Celedonio, born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), married and with three children, is Bachelor in Public Administration and Political Sciences of the University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina) and Ph.D in Political Sciences of the University of Mainz (Germany).