Susan Fifer Canby is Vice President at National Geographic Society in Washington, DC where she has applied more than 32 years of information management experience to shape and direct the Society's libraries and information services. She supports the editorial and business staff and partners of the National Geographic Society with a staff of 26 librarians, archivists, records managers, and indexers. She also manages the Society's internal university, National Geographic Learning Systems. She is a past president of DC Special Libraries Association, DC Library Association, CAPCON Board, and former member of the OCLC Member's Council.

Susan was recognized by SLA in 2001 as the Innovator of the Year, became a University of Maryland Alumna of the Year, 2004, and received the SLA Factiva Leadership Award in 2005. Her library has been recognized by SLA's Business and Finance Division as a Center of Excellence for management. She was a Knight Fellow for the Salzburg Seminar, Libraries for the 21st Century (2004) and a Freeman Fellow for East West Relations (2005). For more information, see: http://www.susanfifercanby.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vitae