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Suzanne Kindervatter

Vice President of Strategic Impact, InterAction

As head of the Strategic Impact Team, Dr. Suzanne Kindervatter oversees InterAction’s work on priority international development issues, gender integration and women’s empowerment, and documenting InterAction member field activities and technical experience from the field. She also leads InterAction’s work on the post-2015 agenda. Over the past 25 years, she has worked in 20 countries, in the areas of adult and nonformal education, microenterprise development, organizational capacity building, evaluation, and gender and development.

Previous to joining InterAction in 1994, Dr. Kindervatter served as Director of the Better Life Options for Girls and Young Women Program at the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), where she managed a 15-country initiative to expand rights and opportunities for adolescent girls, and as Asia Region and Technical Services Director of OEF International. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in developing participatory training materials and guides to women in development, evaluation, and other areas.

She has served on the boards of the Association of Women in Development, Women Thrive Worldwide, US Women Connect, and since 2003 has been a member of the World Bank’s External Gender Consultative Group.

She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Foundations/Asian Studies from the East West Center/University of Hawaii (1971) and an Ed.D. in International Education from the University of Massachusetts (1978).

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