Susan Namulindwa
Susan is the Founder and Executive Director of Africa Trade Desk, the Vice President, Canada with the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business, and Board Chair of the Afro-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. She is a seasoned, client-focused, and results-oriented executive, with a twenty-five-year plus track record of management, mobilizing partners, teams, and stakeholders with often competing interests to solve problems and achieve measurable results.
She has in-depth expertise and knowledge in building team resiliency, leading consultations among diverse stakeholders around the world with reference to agenda setting, strategic vision on sustainable development, inclusive trade, delivering on the new change, project management, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Susan has longstanding expertise in policy, partnerships, strategy, outreach, communications, as well as being an experienced fundraiser, presenter, and trainer.
Susan is very involved in her community in Canada and Africa, and the broader International African Diaspora through various community development initiatives on gender equality, environment, connectivity, food security, diversity, and inclusion. She is passionate about women and girls’ leadership, wellbeing, and development.