Suzanne F Nossel is a human rights advocate, former government official, author, and Chief Executive Officer of PEN America.
15 Facts About Suzanne Nossel
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Suzanne Nossel has served in a variety of leadership roles in the corporate, non-profit, and government sectors and has led PEN America since 2013.
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Suzanne Nossel is the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.
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Suzanne Nossel oversaw the unification of PEN America with Los Angeles-based PEN Center USA, the establishment of a Washington, DC office to drive policy advocacy in the nation's capital, and the creation of a network of PEN America chapters across the organization.
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Suzanne Nossel previously served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA and as chief operating officer at Human Rights Watch.
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Suzanne Nossel has served as a Board Member of Tides Foundation, beginning in 2013, and still serving in 2019.
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Suzanne Nossel served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs in 2009, where she was responsible for multilateral human rights, humanitarian affairs, women's issues, public diplomacy, press, and congressional relations.
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Suzanne Nossel was the lead US negotiator in settling US arrears to the United Nations through a landmark consensus agreement reached by the UN's General Assembly.
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Suzanne Nossel served as a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for Judge Judith W Rogers.
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Early in her career, Suzanne Nossel was an associate in consumer and media practice at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company.
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Suzanne Nossel later worked Vice President of US Business Development for Bertelsmann Media and Vice president of strategy and operations for the Wall Street Journal.
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In 1997 Suzanne Nossel was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship for showing exceptional promise for a career in public interest law.
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Suzanne Nossel is the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, a set of principles to chart a course for free speech that promotes equity and inclusion.
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Suzanne Nossel is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times, Politico, and The Guardian, among others.
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Suzanne Nossel was born in Westchester, New York, the daughter of South African parents and granddaughter of refugees from Nazi Germany who fled to South Africa during the 1930s.