Interview: Ambassador Susan Page

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Susan Page served as the first United States Ambassador to South Sudan, the Acting United States Ambassador to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as well as in other diplomatic postings. In addition, she has served the United Nations and has held the positions of Director of the Rule of Law Advisory Unit in the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) and Senior Legal Adviser for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sudan and in Rwanda. She served in her role as U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan from October 2011 through July 2015.

Page received an A.B. in English with high distinction from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has also studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and conducted research on children and women’s rights through a Rotary International post-graduate fellowship.

Page currently serves as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH).

Pictured (Left to Right): Memme Onwudiwe (APJ Interviewer), Ambassador Susan Page, Guy Josef (APJ Interviewer)