Susan Ruffo

Susan Ruffo is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation on Climate and the Ocean. Previously, she served as associate director for climate preparedness at the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Barack Obama, executive director of the Circulate Initiative and managing director of international initiatives at Ocean Conservancy. She began her career as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, serving in China, Argentina, Nigeria and Washington, D.C. She has degrees in economics and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.