Suzanne Petroni BIR, PhD, MSFS

Suzanne Petroni, PhD, is Principal Owner of Gender Equality Solutions. She has more than 25 years of experience in foreign policy and global development. She served as Senior Director of Global Health, Youth, and Development at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). She has also served as Vice President of Global Health at the Public Health Institute and Senior Program Officer of the Summit Foundation and has worked in the US Department of State as Program Officer in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Global Affairs. She holds a doctorate in Gender and Social Policy from The George Washington University.

Dr Suzanne Petroni is Senior Director for Global Health, Youth and Development at ICRW, where she leads the organization’s work to improve development programs and policies by expanding the evidence base regarding the relationships between gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescence and demographic and socioeconomic outcomes. Over the past 25 years, Petroni has worked in foreign policy and global development on behalf of the U.S. government, as well as in the philanthropic, non-profit and research sectors. Currently, Petroni directs ICRW’s research on the economic impacts of child marriage, documents best practices in positive youth development, synthesizes research on health and gender norms in adolescence, and advances global knowledge and awareness of the harmful practice of child marriage and of the benefits of providing universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.