Susan Davis

Susan Davis is a thought leader in international development and civil society innovation. She is founder and President & CEO of BRAC USA, a newly created organization to support BRAC’s global expansion to Africa and other countries in Asia.  She is also a founding board member and former Chair of the Grameen Foundation. Davis serves on Ashoka’s international board committee that selects Ashoka Fellows and led Ashoka’s Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. She co-founded the University Network for Social Entrepreneurship and oversaw Ashoka’s expansion to the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. She is a senior advisor to New York University's Reynolds Program on Social Entrepreneurship. She serves on numerous other boards including Project Enterprise, Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund, and African Women’s Development Fund USA. She is on Mary Robinson’s Advisory Council of Realizing Rights and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  She was educated at Georgetown, Harvard and Oxford universities.