Meet the Devex Authors

Susan Papp

Susan Papp

Susan Papp serves as the managing director of policy and advocacy at Women Deliver. She is an award-winning advocate and policy expert with a passion for improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations. She has nearly 20 years of experience working on global projects to advance political will, policies, and funding for a variety of issues relating to girls’ and women’s health, and women’s economic empowerment.
Susan Reichle

Susan Reichle

Susan Reichle is the International Youth Foundation’s president and chief executive officer. She came to IYF in 2017 after 25 years with USAID as a foreign service officer. She has served in Haiti, Nicaragua, Russia, and Colombia as well as Washington. As the assistant to the administrator for policy planning and learning, Susan spearheaded policy development, including the agency's first youth and development policy.
Susana Malcorra

Susana Malcorra

Susana Malcorra is the president and co-founder of GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion. She served as minister of foreign affairs and worship of Argentina from 2015 to 2017, and she was chief of staff to former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from 2012 to 2015.
Susan K. Barnett

Susan K. Barnett

Susan K. Barnett leads Cause Communications and is founder of the multifaith advocacy project, Faiths for Safe Water. She is an award-winning ex-investigative journalist with the network news magazines PrimeTime Live, 20/20, and Dateline NBC.
Susan M. Blaustein

Susan M. Blaustein

Susan M. Blaustein is founder and director of WomenStrong International, a consortium of non-governmental organizations in five countries dedicated to eradicating extreme urban poverty by enabling women and girls to live healthy, fulfilling lives. Prior to starting WSI, she co-founded and directed the Millennium Cities Initiative, a project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University committed to sustainable urban development across sub-Saharan Africa. Blaustein has also served as a senior consultant and analyst with the International Crisis Group, worked with the Coalition for International Justice, and reported on conflict, politics, economics, and social injustice from the Balkans, Southeast Asia and Washington, DC, for such publications as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times.
Susann Roth

Susann Roth

Susann is a senior social development specialist at the Asian Development Bank and co-led the preparation of ADB’s Operational Plan for Health 2015–2020, which aims to double ADB’s health sector operations by 2020. Besides the strategic work, she focuses on increasing ADB private sector health investments. Susann also holds a position as adjunct associate professor at National University of Singapore, Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Susanna Moorehead

Susanna Moorehead

Susanna Moorehead is chair of the OECD DAC. She has previously served as British ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the African Union, and as an executive director at the World Bank.
Susanna Mudge

Susanna Mudge

Susanna Mudge is the president and CEO of Chemonics International. Mudge is the fourth CEO and first woman to serve in this role since the company’s founding in 1975. She joined Chemonics in 1992 as a director of some of the company’s larger programs, and later served as acting chief of party, senior vice president of the Latin America and Caribbean region, and executive vice president. She has in-depth global expertise in strategic private sector development, organizational development, trade and investment promotion, and sustainable natural resource management.
Susannah Birkwood

Susannah Birkwood

Susannah Birkwood is a U.K.-based freelance journalist and media and communications consultant who has worked for international organizations including WWF and Plan International.