Nortel Adds to Board 634394

TORONTO -- Nortel(*) (NYSE/TSX: NT) announced thatDr. Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.,School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors,effective immediately.

Johnson has been with Duke University since 1999. As dean of the PrattSchool of Engineering, she oversees more than 1100 undergraduates, 440graduate students and 120 tenure track and non-tenure track faculty. Shejoined Duke from the University of Colorado, where she served as a professorof Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1985-1999.

Johnson has helped start several companies including ColorLink, Inc., andsits on several corporate Board of Directors including Mineral TechnologiesInc., Boston Scientific Corporation, and AES Corporation. She also currentlyserves on the advisory boards of the Colorado School of Mines, the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology School of Engineering, the Duke Childrens' Classic,and the Institute for Emerging Issues.

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