Dr. Mark Suchman has been appointed as the new Executive Director for the American Bar Foundation beginning September 2023. Dr. Suchman is currently a Professor of Sociology at Brown University. He leads the Department of Sociology’s Work, Organizations, and Economy Program and directs the Organizational Studies track. He has also served as Program Director at the National Science Foundation’s Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure; chaired the American Sociological Association’s sections on Sociology of Law and on Organizations, Occupations, and Work; and led the Graduate Student Workshop of the Law and Society Association. Dr. Suchman’s research looks at how legal conditions create—or foreclose—opportunities for innovation and technological change. He has studied law and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, business disputing practices, and patient privacy in the American healthcare system. Dr. Suchman received his A.B. degree in sociology, summa cum laude, from Harvard University; JD from Yale Law School; and MA and Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University. Read more here.