Suzana Grego

Managing Director, Public Engagement & Communications, Skoll Foundation

Biography

Suzana helps drive the Skoll Foundation’s “connect and celebrate” mission and strategy to leverage the Foundation's network--one of its largest and most important assets.

Guided by a core belief in storytelling and advocacy as important change agents, Suzana leads the Public Engagement, Communications, and Creative Services team. The team works to engage and activate audiences to mobilize cross-sectoral support for social entrepreneurs driving systemic solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

Suzana has decades of experience in communications, marketing, and public engagement. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Suzana built and directed marcom departments and brands for philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, NGOs like the International Center for Transitional Justice, and corporations like IBM/Lotus.

With justice and equity as her north stars from an early age, Suzana started her career as a human rights investigator in her home country of Croatia, working to bring to justice human rights violators during Yugoslavia's civil war in the 1990s.

At the International Center for Transitional Justice, she developed public engagement strategies for national transition efforts including: truth commissions in Peru and Morocco; advocacy initiatives for tribunals in Iraq, the Former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda; and campaigns for human rights in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Suzana received a Master of International Affairs in Human Rights from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

She is currently working on a range of urgent global problems, including access to health and education, climate change and clean energy, and an initiative looking at how the demand and supply side of the media industry could be improved to better serve and support civil society and democracy.

Regional Focus

Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America

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