Guest Speaker:
Suzannah Jessep
CEO, Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono
Event Date: Tuesday 28th May 2024
Event Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Event Location:
Bell Gully
Level 4 Bell Gully Building, 40 Lady Elizabeth Lane, Wellington, 6011.
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Suzannah Jessep is Chief Executive Officer of the Asia New Zealand Foundation – an organisation dedicated to deepening New Zealand’s engagement in and with Asia. Prior to become CEO she was head of the research and track II experts’ programme. From 2016-2019, she served as New Zealand’s Deputy High Commissioner to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Deputy Ambassador to Nepal and before that, as New Zealand’s Deputy High Commissioner to Vanuatu. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she served in the Ministry’s Australia, Pacific and Europe Divisions, and in the area of Antarctic and security policy. She is a board member of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA) and sits on the Advisory Boards of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre (NZCCRC), Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS), and the New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI). She is Chair of the Ministerial Strategic Advisory Group on Trade that reports to the New Zealand Minister of Trade.
