As Senior Director for Gender, Population and Development, Dr. Suzanne Petroni leads ICRW’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. She has more than 20 years of experience in foreign policy and global development, with particular expertise in gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and adolescent health and development. Suzanne has worked in the U.S. government, and the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, and has solid academic grounding in gender, public policy and international relations.