SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

SUSAN GINSBURG is an attorney who was senior counsel and team leader for the 9-11 Commission’s border security team. She served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement at the Department of the Treasury from 1994-2001, and as special assistant at the Department of State’s Office of International Narcotics Matters from 1979-1981. An attorney, she has practiced law as a civil litigator in private and public litigation. Prior to law school, she was a legislative assistant to Rep. James Scheuer of New York, worked for Ralph Nader as a director of one of his organizations, and as the Washington news producer for TV Globo of Brazil. She is a director of Aid to Artisans, and a member of the Finance Committee for the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and served as a law clerk to Judge Leon Higginbotham of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

MODERATOR

DORIS MEISSNER, former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. She contributes to MPI's project on national security and immigration and conducts policy research on international migration and development, and immigration policymaking in an era of globalization.
Ms. Meissner served as INS commissioner from October 1993 to November 2000. In 1989, Ms. Meissner founded the Carnegie Endowment's International Migration Policy Program, which evolved into the Migration Policy Institute in 2001. After leaving government in 2000, she returned to the Carnegie Endowment as a senior associate in the Global Policy Program.