Susi Snyder is an expert on nuclear weapons, with over two decades experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights. She currently works as the financial sector coordinator for ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Susi coordinated the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and campaign from 2013. In addition to the annual Don’t Bank on the Bomb reports, 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); Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending (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).
Susi has also 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), War and Environment Reader (2018) and Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation (2017). 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 formerly served on the International Steering Group of the 2017 Nobel Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and was its President at the time of the Nobel Prize award.
Susi was a Foreign Policy Interrupted/ Bard College Fellow in 2020 and a 2016 Nuclear Free Future Award Laureate. Previously, she worked as humanitarian disarmament programme lead and managed the nuclear disarmament programme at PAX in the Netherlands, before that she served as the Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at their Geneva secretariat.
Susi 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, check out her Storycorps interview.