Speakers
Suzanne Garment
Visiting scholar, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University
Suzanne Garment is a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy and a consultant and counsel to nonprofit organizations. She is a tax attorney, and when in private practice she had specialties in nonprofit and international taxation. From 1987 to 1997, she was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and from 1977 to 1987, she was an associate editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and wrote the weekly Journal column “Capital Chronicle.” Ms. Garment served in government as special assistant to Daniel P. Moynihan while he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She has also taught politics and public policy at Harvard University and Yale University. Ms. Garment is the author of Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics and Decision to Prosecute: Organization and Public Policy in the Antitrust Division, as well as numerous articles, op-eds, and reviews. She earned a B.A. at Radcliffe College, an M.A. at the University of Sussex in the U.K., a J.D. and LL.M. at Georgetown University Law Center, and a Ph.D. at Harvard University.