Vice Chair

Susan Ness is the founder of Susan Ness Strategies, a communications policy consulting firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

She is also currently a board member of Vital Voices Global Partnership. Previously, Ness served as the President and CEO of GreenStone Media, LLC, which produced syndicated talk radio programming targeting women, and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School for Communications.

From 1994 to 2001, Ness was a member of the Federal Communications Commission, having been appointed by President Clinton. Prior to joining the FCC, she was corporate vice president of the American Security Bank, specializing in the telecom and media sectors, and assistant counsel to the Banking Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Douglass College, her J.D. from Boston College and her M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ness was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President Barack Obama in 2011.