Susan Bateson '76

2005–2010
Susan Bateson  graduated from Mount Holyoke with an A.B., cum laude, in economics in 1976. While attending Mount Holyoke, Ms. Bateson  spent her junior year studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Ms. Bateson also holds a master's degree in business administration from New York University. She has over 25 years of experience in human resources, including leadership positions in the financial services industry, a law firm, and a biopharmaceutical firm.

Currently, Ms. Bateson  serves as senior vice president, human resources, and as a member of the management committee of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (HGS). She joined HGS in 1997. Ms. Bateson served as director of human resources and administration at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., a law firm specializing in intellectual property, from 1994 to 1996. From 1983 to 1994, Ms. Bateson was employed by J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated, where she was appointed vice president, human resources, in 1985 and worked in Morgan's offices in New York City, Wilmington, Delaware, and London, England. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Ms. Bateson worked for Citibank, N.A., and Bankers Trust Company.

Ms. Bateson  is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Universities at Shady Grove, a regional higher-education center in Montgomery County, Maryland, and serves on the Biotechnology Steering Committee of the Governor's Workforce Investment Board (Maryland). She is an active member and lay leader of the Church of the Holy Comforter, an Episcopal Church in Vienna, Virginia. Ms. Bateson  also serves on the Major Gifts Committee of the greater Washington, D.C. area for Mount Holyoke. Ms. Bateson grew up in Connecticut; and resides in Vienna, Virginia.