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Susan Ness (born August 11, 1948) was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Federal Communications Commission, on which she served as a commissioner from 1994-2001. A frequent lecturer on both communications policy and women's leadership, she became a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 2010, where she currently chairs the SAIS Global Conference on Women in the Boardroom. In 2011, she was selected by President Barack Obama for the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Education
Susan Ness graduated with a BA in political science/international relations from Douglass College, now known as Douglass Residential College (Rutgers University). She spent her junior year studying multilingualism in Geneva, Switzerland under Sarah Lawrence College. Ness received her JD cum laude from Boston College Law School and earned her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Career
Prior to joining the FCC, Ness served as Assistant Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing (which is now the United States House Committee on Financial Services), as head of the Judicial Appointments Project of the National Women's Political Caucus, and as corporate vice president and group head at a national bank, specializing in the communications sector.

In March of 1994, Susan Ness was nominated to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by President Bill Clinton. She was confirmed as Commissioner in May of that year, and held this position through 2001. During her tenure, the Commission undertook 184 actions in order to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which updated the United States' telecommunications law to accommodate the advent of the internet, and other new technologies. As the FCC's senior representative to three ITU WRC conferences, she participated in international negotiations on communications policy issues such as trade, spectrum, and standards. Domestically, she served as diplomatic negotiator for industry issues including internet deregulation, the new technologies of digital television and a changing communications landscape.

Following the FCC, Ness served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication.

In 2005, Ness co-founded and became the CEO of GreenStone Media, LLC, a syndicated talk programming radio network for women. The network produced 63 hours of weekly original programming for broadcast and satellite talk radio during its peak operations, and garnered two Gracie Awards before its dissolution in 2007.

In 2008, she co-led the Federal Trade Commission Agency Review Team on the Obama Presidential Transition Team.

Awards and Honors

 * 1999 International Radio and Television Society Foundation Achievement Award
 * Digital Television Pioneer Award
 * Named one of "12 to Watch" in 1997 by Electronic Media
 * The Annenberg School for Communication's Edward L. Palmer Award
 * 2002 National Association of Broadcasters' Engineering and Technology Achievement Award
 * American Women in Radio and Television's first "Advocates" Award
 * The District of Columbia AWRT Leadership Award
 * Wireless Women's Network's first Leadership Award
 * Inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni
 * Inducted into Douglass College's Douglass Society