Susan Dudley

Susan E. Dudley founded the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center in 2009 to improve regulatory policy through research, education, and outreach. She is director of the Center and a distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. She is a senior fellow with the Administrative Conference of the United States, an elected fellow and former president of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, on Norm Ai’s Regulatory Advisory Board, a member of the Federalist Society’s administrative law and regulation practice group and former chair of its Regulatory Transparency Project regulatory process working group. 

From April 2007 through January 2009, Dudley served as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, responsible for the review of executive branch regulations and information collection, the development and implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information policy, privacy, and statistical policy, and international regulatory cooperation efforts. 

Earlier in her career, she directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, taught courses on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law, and served as an economist in OIRA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 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.