A profile picture of Susan Brown

Susan Brown

  • United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

A senior advocacy, policy, and communications expert, Ms Brown comes with a strong track record and commitment to the development of good public policy as well as sustainable development advocacy and financing. Most recently, Ms. Brown was a strategic advisor to various international organizations providing policy, communications, and advocacy support in sustainable development, gender, and public health.  

Between 2016 to 2022, Ms. Brown was Director of Public Policy Engagement at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a public-private partnership of WHO, UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, civil society, the private sector, and government partners. 

From 2005 to 2016, Ms. Brown worked at WWF International, which is one of the world’s largest conservation organizations, active in more than 100 countries. For the last six years of her tenure, Ms. Brown also served as the Director of Global and Regional Policy and Head of the Policy and External Affairs Cluster, achieving significant outcomes for the organization across multilateral dialogues over all areas of sustainable development.