Suzanne Berger

Institute Professor Suzanne Berger’s research focuses on politics and globalization. She  co-directs the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) which brings engineers, social scientists, and economists together to work on how to transform manufacturing.  She led the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy project (Making in America: From Innovation to Market, 2013). She created the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) program which today sends hundreds of MIT students abroad for internships in labs and companies.  She participated in the 1989 Made in America project at MIT and wrote Made By Hong Kong and Global Taiwan (with Richard K. Lester). She is the author of Notre Première Mondialisation and How We Compete. Her earlier work focused on political development (Peasants Against Politics) and the organization of interests (Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies and Organizing Interests in Western Europe).  

Suzanne Berger served as Head of the MIT Department of Political Science, founding chair of the SSRC Committee on West Europe, and Vice President of the American Political Science Association. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The French government has awarded her the Palmes Academiques, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite and the Légion d’Honneur.