Zane O. Gresham

Zane O. Gresham is a senior partner of the international law firm, Morrison & Foerster. Educated at Johns Hopkins University (BA, cum laude, 1970) and Northwestern University (JD, magna cum laude, 1973), he became a partner of the firm in 1979. Mr. Gresham has advised on mergers and acquisitions and project development in Asia and South America, as well as the United States, in diverse industries including biotechnology, petrochemicals, energy, transportation and wineries.

He provides public and private sector clients with strategic advice on private involvement in international water markets and airports around the world. Mr. Gresham has advised on water projects and transactions in Argentina (Province of Buenos Aires and Mendoza), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Chile (Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepcion), China (Chengdu and Chaoyang), Panama and Peru (Lima).

He has advised international consortia in connection with participation in a number of airports and airports systems, including the Perth, Australia, airport, the major airports of Western China, the four major airports in Honduras, certain airports in Mexico, the national airports system in Argentina and the Santiago, Chile, and Lima, Peru, airports. Mr. Gresham served as the legal advisor on aWorld Bank team for a study of airport privatization, and involvement of the private sector in airport management and development.

Mr. Gresham is President of the Pan American Society of California, Vice President for Latin America of the International Private Water Association, a full member of the Urban Land Institute and of Lambda Alpha, the international honorary land economics organization, Vice Chairman of the National Youth Science Foundation, a Director of the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco, and a former President of the East Bay Regional Parks Foundation.

He has been a guest lecturer for ITAM (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico), and UIA (Unión Industrial Argentina). He has acted as a special legal adviser to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the North America Commission on Environmental Cooperation (NACEC).