Susan Wnukowska-Mtonga
Global Public Service Fellow
Suzie
joined the Center in 2018 and is responsible for assisting in capacity building
efforts across our partner network.
Suzie came
from a commercial law background. She most recently worked at Hewlett Packard
Enterprise as in-house counsel. She also ran the Hewlett Packard Enterprise pro
bono program for the South Pacific, and assisted asylum seekers as a registered
migration agent at Refugee Advice and Casework Service. Prior to that she was
an attorney at Gilbert + Tobin, where she was active in the firm’s pro bono
practice, particularly in the area of refugee rights and LGBTI rights. Suzie
also started the not-for-profit Rights
Nights, which focuses on educating the Australian public on human rights
issues.
Suzie
received her Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (majoring in
International Relations) from the Australian National University and recently
received her LLM (Hons) from Columbia Law School where she specialized in Human
Rights Law. During her time at Columbia she was part of the Human Rights
Clinic, where she mapped and documented human rights violations related to the
civil conflict in the Central African Republic.
Suzie’s
native tongue is English and she also speaks fluent Polish and conversational
French.