Dr. Susan Marquis

Biography

Susan Marquis is the Charles Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. She teaches and writes on new approaches to public policy and policy analysis, focusing on efforts to affect change within communities through collaboration across government, nonprofit, philanthropic, and private sectors. Marquis has a breadth of work that includes influential books on agricultural labor and social justice movements, such as 'Tractor! Florida Farmworkers Took on Fast Food Giants and Won' and 'Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces'. She has published numerous commentaries on issues related to human rights and social justice, as well as topics tied to women, national security, and STEM fields. Marquis served as Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School until September 2021 and held the additional role of Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation starting in 2012. Her tenure at Pardee RAND was marked by the transformation of the nation's largest and oldest public policy Ph.D. program and the establishment of a new model of graduate education in public policy. Her experience also includes corporate leadership at LMI and senior leadership roles within the U.S. Navy's Office of the Secretary of Defense. Additionally, she has been influential in various advisory roles, including chairing the Advisory Council for the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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