Susan Harris Rimmer

Associate Fellow, Gender and Growth Initiative

Biography

Associate Professor Dr Susan Harris Rimmer is an Australian Research Council future fellow in Griffith Law School, and an adjunct reader in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University.

Susan was selected as an expert for the official Australian delegation to the 58th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York in March 2014, and is one of two Australian representatives to the W20 in Turkey and China. She has provided policy advice to the Australian government and Commonwealth parliament on the UNSC, G20, IORA and MIKTA.


In 2014 she was named one of the Westpac and Australian Financial Review’s 100 women of influence in the global category.

She has served in voluntary roles as a board member of UN Women National Committee Australia, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, the Refugee Council of Australia and International Women’s Development Agency.

Past experience

2015 Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2014-18, Griffith Law School
2013-15

Director of Studies, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University 

2010-13

Advocacy Manager, Australian Council for International Development (ACFID is the peak body for Australian NGOs working in international development). Consultant to the DLA Piper Review of sexual and other abuse in Defence, 2011