Susi is a geographer by training (PhD, Clark University, 1997) and works as an independent researcher and consultant on climate change adaptation, social transformation, communication and science-policy interactions. Since its inception, she has provided scientific and strategic advice on programme direction to the ISC's Transformations to Sustainability Programme, and contributes to the conception and implementation of the programme’s various activities. Susi served as a lead editor of the World Social Science Report 2013 and as the editor of the special issue of COSUST on co-designing transformation-related research, which highlights T2S programme' contributions.