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Suzana Grego

Vice President, Connect & Champion Skoll Foundation

Biography

As Vice President of the Skoll Foundation's Connect & Champion division, Suzana helps drive the department's strategy and operations, building the Foundation's platform, network, and storytelling assets to support social innovators driving social change around the world.

A seasoned philanthropy and tech executive, brand strategist, storyteller, and human rights advocate, Suzana has focused her career on advancing justice, equity, and human rights for all, around the world.

Prior to joining Skoll, Suzana led Marcom departments and brands for philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, NGOs like the International Center for Transitional Justice, and corporations like IBM/Lotus.

Suzana has developed global strategies, advocacy initiatives, and public campaigns for justice, human rights, and national transition efforts including truth commissions, tribunals, reparations, and memorials around the world.

She serves on the board of Media Impact Funders to catalyze greater philanthropic support of trusted, public interest media and journalism.

Suzana holds a graduate degree in international affairs from Columbia and an undergraduate degree from Harvard.

Regional Focus

Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America

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