Susan Dudley was nominated by President Bush to serve as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in July of 2006. Before that time, she directed the Regulatory Studies Program of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University from 2003 until 2006. Pending her appointment, Dudley continues her work at Mercatus as a Distinguished Senior Scholar.
Dudley has taught at the George Mason University School of Law since 2002. From 2003-2004, she taught at Georgetown University through the Fund for American Studies. She also serves on the board of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the International Foundation for Experimental Economics.
Dudley worked for the federal government during the Reagan and Bush I administration from 1984 until 1991. From 1984 to 1985, she worked for the Environmental Protection Agency. She was a career economist in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget from 1985 to 1989 and served as economic advisor to Commissioner William P. Albrecht at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1989 to 1991.
A Virginia resident, she has served as a citizen member of several committees and boards, including the Virginia Environmental Education Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2002, the Administrative Law Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2003, and the Virginia Waste Management Board from 1996 to 2001. She has also worked in the private sector as a consultant for Economists Incorporated from 1991 until 1998.
Dudley received her BS in economics from the University of Massachusetts in 1977 and her MS from the Sloan School of Management at MIT in 1981. She was born in 1955.