Suzanne S. Harrison is an author, patent futurist, and economist. She works with companies both large and small to help them utilize their patent data to make more informed decisions and realize the true value of their intellectual property. She is currently the Chair of the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) for the USPTO.  

She is also the Founder and Principal of Percipience LLC, a board-level advisory group focused on IP and innovation strategy, management, and quantifying and mitigating IP risk. Since 1995, she has led a group called the ICM Gathering, an invitation-only group of 20 companies that meet regularly to define, create, benchmark and test best practices in IP management. 

Her books draw on her work with the Gathering, and feature success stories of companies leading the way in innovative IP management. She is a Board member of the USIPA and co-chair of the Diversity & Inclusion committee which launched the Diversity Pledge to assist companies in increasing diversity in inventorship.  

She is also a Board member and North American Regional Chair of the Global IP Alliance. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from UC Davis, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She lives in San Francisco, CA, with her husband and two children.