Susi Snyder is an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights. For the past decade, Susi has worked with financial sector actors to stigmatize nuclear weapons.
Susi served as President of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons 2014-2021. This was also during negotiations on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and when the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize (2017).
Susi is a co-founder of TANGO Future, (Technology, Arts, and a New Global Objective for the Future), and an SNS Innovation Ambassador, and an occasional contributor to the Vatican Security COVID Task Force.
Since 2013, she coordinated the Don’t Bank on the Bomb project, resulting in hundreds of policies against investing in nuclear weapon producers.
She is a 2016 Nuclear Free Future Award Laureate, and was a 2020 Foreign Policy Interrupted/ Bard College fellow. Previously, she was a programme lead for the humanitarian disarmament team at PAX in the Netherlands and managed their nuclear disarmament efforts. Before that, Susi served as the Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at their Geneva secretariat.
Susi has contributed to a number of recent books, including Forbidden, Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (forthcoming), A World Free from Nuclear Weapons (2020), Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation (2017) and War and Environment Reader (2018). She has been featured in Project Syndicate, CNBC, 360 Magazine, Quartz, the Intercept, Huffington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and on Democracy Now (among others).
Susi has published numerous reports and articles, including Squandered: 2021 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending (2022), 101 investors say no to nuclear weapons (2022), Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers (2021), a guide to Digital Diplomacy Dos and Don’ts (2020); Nuclear weapons and the digital age; what now? (2020); Producing mass destruction: Private companies and the nuclear weapons industry (2019); Shorting our security- Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons (2019); Banned but Allied: Next steps for NATO Alliance members after the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2018); Escalating tensions: The perfect time to negotiate the outlaw and elimination of nuclear weapons(2015); Dealing with a ban (2015); The Rotterdam Blast: The immediate humanitarian consequences of a 12 kiloton nuclear explosion (2014); ‘Disarm, dismantle and make a profit: A cost-benefit analysis of nuclear modernisation versus nuclear disarmament’ (2013), and Withdrawal Issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe (2011).
She is the only person who has ever addressed the UN Conference on Disarmament as an NGO representative after they adopted a programme of work. She was named Hero of Las Vegas in 2001 for her work with Indigenous populations against US nuclear weapons development and nuclear waste dumping. Mrs. Snyder currently lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands with her husband and son.
For more about Susi in her own words, check out her Storycorps interview.