Heather Hudson

Heather Hudson, Professor Emerita, is a leading researcher in communication technologies and policies for socio-economic development who has contributed to USF’s MBA program since 1987. Her work includes founding the Communications Technology Management and Policy Program, as well as performing extensive international research on the effects of new communications and information technologies, and the role of telecommunications in social and economic development. She wrote six books and published numerous articles while at USF, and consulted for international organizations, government agencies, the private sector, and consumer and indigenous organizations.

She won the University Distinguished Research Award and was a six-time winner of the Graduate School of Business Distinguished Research Award. While at USF, she held a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship for the Asia-Pacific (in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan), was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and Senior Fellow at CIRCIT in Australia and at the East-West Center in Hawaii. She also received a second Fulbright Fellowship as the Visiting North American Policy Research Chair at Carleton University in Canada and was a Sloan Foundation Industry Fellow at Columbia Business School. She was also one of the few non-engineers to be an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Professor Hudson was also a Sproul Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scholar in UC Berkeley’s School of Information (I School). She was also an Inaugural Fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). 

Professor Hudson is a board member of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC), the Global Telecommunications Women’s Network (GTWN), and the journal  Telecommunications Policy. She has also been a board member of Farm Radio International (FRI), the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Women in Telecommunications (WiT), and the International Council for Computer Communications (ICCC).

Professor Hudson received an Honours BA from the University of British Columbia, MA and PhD in Communication Research from Stanford University, and JD from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a dual Canadian and U.S. citizen.

• University of Texas at Austin, JD
• Stanford University, PhD in Communication Research
• Stanford University, MA in Communication Research
• University of British Columbia, BA with Honors