Susan Podziba

Susan Podziba, Principal at Podziba Policy Mediation, has served as a public policy mediator for more than 30 years.  Most of her projects include working with senior leadership of governments, representative stakeholders, civil society, and the general public. Her clients have included 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, International Monetary Fund, 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.

Ms. Podziba founded the Sacred Lands Project and serves as an expert for the course, Religion and Conflict Transformation, which is organized by SwissPeace at the University of Basel. She has been faculty for negotiation and mediation courses and the advanced mediation executive course at the Program of Negotiation at Harvard Law School, lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution. She currently lectures internationally, most recently in Israel and Bahrain.

Ms. Podziba has a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied mediation and international conflict resolution, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, with concentrations in social theory and biblical studies from the University of Pennsylvania.