Dr. Suezan Lee provides the strategic education finance guidance to USAID’s (the United States Agency for International Development) $1 billion education portfolio, specifically with regard to public-private partnerships, public financial management and innovative financing mechanisms to further education policy priorities in foundational learning, increasing equitable access to the most marginalized and vulnerable, youth workforce development and higher education.

She is currently serving as the Acting System Division Lead at the Center for Education. She has also served as the Deputy Basic Education Team Leader and Chairperson of the USAID 2009-2011 Education Strategy Committee.

Previously, Dr. Lee has worked in the Office of Development Credit where she was instrumental in the issuance of the largest bond issuance for Georgia.