Susan Vize

Dr. Susan Vize officially took up her functions as the Head of Office and UNESCO Representative to Bangladesh in November 2023. She assumed the functions of Officer In Charge of UNESCO in Dhaka (Bangladesh) from July 2022 till mid-November 2023. Prior to this she was the UNESCO Regional Adviser for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok. Sue joined UNESCO in 2006 and spent eight years in Samoa as the Social and Human Sciences Programme Officer working on a range of projects with youth, social inclusion, bioethics, creative industries and education for sustainable development. In 2014 she transferred to the Regional Office in Bangkok and worked on youth and social inclusion projects across the region. Sue has acted as Officer-in-Charge for UNESCO in the Pacific (2012-2013) and Ha Noi (20152016), Vietnam. Prior to joining UNESCO, Sue was the Executive Officer of the Murray-Darling Basin Community Advisory Committee based in Canberra, Australia. She has worked on a range of community natural resource management, capacity building and community education projects in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. She is a qualified teacher and trainer, and founding Principal of FNQ Training, a community-based TVET organisation working with Aboriginal communities and the unemployed in north Queensland.