Suzanne is an international investments expert and seasoned Board Director. She served as Non-Executive Director of the Lim Multi-Strategy Fund (2015–2020) and has held advisory roles with the EDHEC-Risk Institute, IFC-World Bank Private Equity Funds, and the Ashmore Emerging Markets Africa Fund. Suzanne was also elected Director of the United Nations Federal Credit Union.

Until 2015, Suzanne served as Director of Investments for the $54 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, where she successfully guided the fund through the financial crisis, growing its value from $38 billion in 2007. She pioneered investments in Private Equity, Infrastructure, Green Bonds, and Low Volatility ETFs. Previously, as Treasurer of the United Nations, she earned recognition from Paul Volcker for her professional management of the Central Bank of Iraq’s portfolio. Earlier in her career, as Director of Financial Markets at McDonald’s Corporation, she financed global start-ups and real estate investments across 43 countries, including postings in Hong Kong and Brazil.

Fluent in several languages, Suzanne has lectured widely on investment strategies, including at the World Bank, OECD, CFA Institute, and Financial Times Growth Markets Summit. She holds degrees from Harvard University, the Harvard Business School, and McGill University (ICD.D 2013), and completed the HBS Women on Boards Program in 2018.

 

 

Research orientation:
Transition economics, political economics, economics of institutions.​