Susana Edjang

Susana is the Country Representative in Ecuador of CAF – the development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean. A Spanish and Equatorial Guinean national, Susana has more than 16 years of experience in international development from the Americas, Africa and Europe. Since 2011, she has worked in different roles in various United Nations agencies, including: with the World Food Programme, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and seven years in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, as manager of his global movement ‘Every Woman, Every Child’ and as an adviser on economic affairs, social and development. Previously, Susana was advisor for global health and climate change in the House of Lords at the British Parliament, and manager of the British NGO THET, which establishes alliances between health systems. Susana holds a Diploma in Physiotherapy from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Development Economics from the University of London´s School of Oriental and African Studies, a Master’s in Public Administration from the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Susana is a 2014 Yale Global Fellow.