Susan Podziba, USA

Public Policy Mediator, Writer, Author

Susan Podziba who is a public policy mediator. Susan designed and mediated many policy issues mostly involving governmental departments from Commerce to Health and Labor for more than 25 years. Based in Boston, she teaches at Harvard Negotiation Institute, MIT and the University of Amsterdam. In 2012, she wrote a book called 'Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes' as well as many articles on negotiation, mediation and consensus building. She was also involved in a dialogue between pro-life and pro-choice parties after an abortion clinic was bombed in Boston which culminated in a joint article in the Boston Globe five years later.

She is listed on the United Nations Mediator Roster and is the recipient of a 'National Partnership for Reinventing Government' award. Most of her projects include working with senior leadership of governments, stakeholders, civil society, and the general public. Recently, she created a process design tool for World Bank mediators and assisted with the process design for a national economic policy dialogue in Sudan.

She has a Master's in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.