She is the Chairperson of Solutions Journalism Network, an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University Stern School of Business, a coach to social entrepreneurs and active on many boards and advisory councils.
She also oversaw Ashoka's expansion to the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and served as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the International Labour Organization.
[3] She was the executive director of Women's Environment & Development Organization, founded in 1990 by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber to take action in the United Nations and other international policymaking forums.
[10][11] See her TEDx talk at the World Bank Group on Reaching the Excluded that discussed BRAC’s pioneering Ultra Poor program and its importance in ending extreme poverty by 2030.
TEDxWBG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMxPuTVNBX4 Her work on microfinance and entrepreneurship creation in developing countries has appeared in Innovations, Forbes, Harvard Business Review and other publications.
[15] In 2014, Georgetown University invited her to be the Lavender Commencement speaker: https://lgbtq.georgetown.edu/programs/archives/2013-14/lavender-graduation Susan Davis has published numerous articles on the Huffington Post http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/susan-davis.