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Suzanne Nossel
Suzanne F. Nossel is a former government official, human rights advocate, author, and former CEO of PEN America. She has served in a variety of leadership roles in the corporate, non-profit, and government sectors and led PEN America from 2013 - 2024. A Harvard College and Harvard Law School graduate, her book is Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All (2020).
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. Nossel graduated from Harvard College in 1991 and Harvard Law School in 1996.
In 1997 Nossel was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship for showing exceptional promise for a career in public interest law. Shortly thereafter she began to work as a Skadden Fellow at Children's Rights, a public interest advocacy organization in New York City.
Early in her career, Nossel was an associate in consumer and media practice at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company. She later worked as Vice President of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsmann Media and vice president of strategy and operations for the Wall Street Journal.
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. At the State Department, she played a leading role in U.S. engagement at the U.N. Human Rights Council, including the initiation of groundbreaking human rights resolutions on Iran, Syria, Libya, Côte d'Ivoire, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and the first U.N. resolution on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) persons.
From 1999 to 2001, Nossel served as Deputy to the Ambassador for U.N. Management and Reform at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Richard C. Holbrooke. She was the lead U.S. negotiator in settling U.S. arrears to the United Nations through a landmark consensus agreement reached by the UN's General Assembly.
Nossel served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for Judge Judith W. Rogers.
Nossel served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA from January 2012 to January 2013. She was chief operating officer at Human Rights Watch. She has also served as a Board Member of Tides Foundation, beginning in 2013, and still serving as of 2019.
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Suzanne Nossel
Suzanne F. Nossel is a former government official, human rights advocate, author, and former CEO of PEN America. She has served in a variety of leadership roles in the corporate, non-profit, and government sectors and led PEN America from 2013 - 2024. A Harvard College and Harvard Law School graduate, her book is Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All (2020).
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. Nossel graduated from Harvard College in 1991 and Harvard Law School in 1996.
In 1997 Nossel was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship for showing exceptional promise for a career in public interest law. Shortly thereafter she began to work as a Skadden Fellow at Children's Rights, a public interest advocacy organization in New York City.
Early in her career, Nossel was an associate in consumer and media practice at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company. She later worked as Vice President of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsmann Media and vice president of strategy and operations for the Wall Street Journal.
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. At the State Department, she played a leading role in U.S. engagement at the U.N. Human Rights Council, including the initiation of groundbreaking human rights resolutions on Iran, Syria, Libya, Côte d'Ivoire, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and the first U.N. resolution on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) persons.
From 1999 to 2001, Nossel served as Deputy to the Ambassador for U.N. Management and Reform at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Richard C. Holbrooke. She was the lead U.S. negotiator in settling U.S. arrears to the United Nations through a landmark consensus agreement reached by the UN's General Assembly.
Nossel served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for Judge Judith W. Rogers.
Nossel served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA from January 2012 to January 2013. She was chief operating officer at Human Rights Watch. She has also served as a Board Member of Tides Foundation, beginning in 2013, and still serving as of 2019.
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