Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator for more than 30 years, has designed and mediated scores of cases across the policy spectrum for clients including the United States Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, U.S. Institute for Peace, United Nations, The World Bank, British Council, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Emilia Romagna Regional Authority of Italy, and Negotiation Strategies Institute of Jerusalem.

She is listed on the United Nations Mediator Roster and is 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. 

Ms. Podziba is author of Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes and Our Cities: From Corruption to Participatory Democracy as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. She founded the Sacred Lands Project at the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and is faculty for the senior executive seminar, Advanced Mediation Workshop: Mediating Complex Disputes, offered by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and an expert for the course, Religion and Conflict Transformation, which is organized by SwissPeace at the University of Basel.

She has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and has taught graduate seminars on public policy mediation and negotiations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She has a Master of City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.