BIR, PhD, MSFS
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.