Susan Dudley

Susan Dudley

Susan Dudley

Distinguished Professor of Practice, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration


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Email: Susan Dudley
Office Phone: (202) 994-7543
Fax: (202) 994-6792
805 21st St. NW Washington, DC 20052

Susan Dudley is director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. 

She is past president of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis, a senior fellow with the Administrative Conference of the United States, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, on the board of the National Federation of Independent Businesses Legal Center and Economists Incorporated,and on the executive committee of the Federalist Society Administrative Law Group.

Professor Dudley served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center, taught courses on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law, served as a staff economist at OIRA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as a consultant to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated. 

She holds a Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book, Regulation: A Primer, with Jerry Brito, is available on Amazon.com.

 


  • Hiking & canoeing
  • Nature travel
  • Natural resource and historic preservation
  • Reading
  • Good food and wine
  • Public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States
  • Board member of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis
  • Board member of the National Federation of Independent Businesses Legal Center
  • Executive committee member of the Federalist Society Administrative Law Group
  • Regulatory policy
  • Federal regulatory procedure
  • Benefit-cost analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Environmental policy
  • Health & safety regulation
  • Financial market regulation

PPPA 6056  Regulatory Comment Clinic

Selected Publications:

“Comment on Löfstedt’s ‘The substitution principle in chemical regulation: a constructive critique,’” Journal of Risk Research, January 2014.

“Making the Social Cost of Carbon more Social,” Regulation, Vol. 36, Number 4. Winter 2013/2014, with Brian F. Mannix and Sofie E. Miller.

Sequester’s Impact on Regulatory Agencies Modest: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014, a joint report of the GW Regulatory Studies Center and the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis.  With Melinda Warren, July 22, 2013.

 “The EPA’s Implausible Return on its Fine Particulate Standard,” Regulation, Vol. 36, Number 1. Spring 2013.

“Is the Execution of the Law Hyper-Partisan?” The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 10 (summer 2012)

Regulation: A Primer. The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. August 2012. With Jerry Brito.

“Perpetuating Puffery: An Analysis of the Composition of OMB’s Reported Benefits of Regulation,” Business Economics, Vol. 47, No. 3. National Association for Business Economics, August 2012.

“Improving the Use of Science to Inform Environmental Regulation,” in Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science, Jason Scott Johnston, ed. Lexington Books 2012. With George M. Gray.

“Observations on OIRA’s 30th Anniversary,” Administrative Law Review, Vol. 63, Special Edition 2011.

 “Prospects for Regulatory Reform in 2011,” Engage, Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2011.

 “Alfred Kahn, 1917-2010,” Regulation, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2011.

Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT

Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.