Susan Traiman is Director of Public Policy at Business Roundtable where she oversees the Roundtable’s work with chief executive officers of leading corporations interested in improving education performance and workforce competitiveness in the United States. Recently cited as “the most influential chief executive lobbying group in the U.S.” by the Financial Times, Business Roundtable members are at the forefront of public policy, advocating for a vigorous, dynamic global economy. Currently the Roundtable, working with fourteen other national business organizations, is leading the “Tapping America’s Potential” campaign to double the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates with bachelor’s degrees by 2015. Prior to joining Business Roundtable, Traiman was Education Policies Studies Director at the National Governors Association where she worked with governors on the first National Education Summit and the development of National Education Goals. She also was a senior associate with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement where she served on the staff of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and contributed to its landmark 1983 report, A Nation at Risk. Before coming to Washington, D.C., she worked at the state level for a regional technical assistance center and at the local level as a seventh grade social studies teacher. Traiman has a B.A. in American Civilization and M.S. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.