Staff

  • Susan Morgan

    Executive Director

     Susan joined the GNI on June 1, 2010 as its first Executive Director.


    She has responsibility for GNI's strategy and leads GNI's work on outreach to grow GNI's membership with companies, civil society organizations, investors and academics.  She plays a leading role in the development of the assessment process for GNI.  She has represented GNI at the OECD, the Internet Governance Forum and the European Parliament and European Commission.  She is based in Washington DC.       

    Previously, Susan spent ten years in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry with British Telecom (BT) based in London.  In her most recent role in BT she ran the Corporate Responsibility strategy, policy and business planning team.  There she had responsibility for managing BT’s CR risks; the business case for CR; sustainability reporting and developing the direction for BT in relation to the low carbon economy.  She also led research on CR issues including privacy in the digital networked economy and responsibility in the global information society.  

    Susan spent the first seven years of her career in the not for profit sector.  She held a number of different roles at The Work Foundation, a UK based organisation which campaigns to improve the world of work.

    A British national, Susan is a graduate of Durham University with a Masters degree in Politics and outside work enjoys yoga, swimming, reading and travelling.


  • David Sullivan

    Policy and Communications Director

    David joined GNI in September 2011. Based in Washington, DC, David formulates and articulates GNI’s policy positions in collaboration with the Executive Director and Board committees, and manages the Initiative’s communications and outreach activities.

    David joins GNI from the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress. As Research Director at Enough, he oversaw field research and the production of policy analysis and recommendations to end genocide and crimes against humanity, with a focus on Sudan and eastern Congo. David helped to lead Enough’s work on conflict minerals, changing corporate behavior around global electronics supply chains contributing to conflict in eastern Congo.

    His international experience includes working for the International Rescue Committee in Liberia, supporting elections in Pakistan, and managing human rights and humanitarian programs across Africa. David has a master’s degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and an undergraduate degree from Amherst College. He has been a guest analyst with numerous international, national, and local news outlets, including CNN, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR.


  • Jermyn Brooks

    Independent Chair 

    Jermyn became the first Independent Chair of GNI in January 2011.

    He is currently Chair of Transparency International's (TI) Business Advisory Board and was Executive Director and CFO of TI from 2000 to 2003 and a member of their international Board from 2003 till 2006.  For six years from 2003 till 2009 he was also a Board member of International IDEA, an intergovernmental organisation supporting democracy development.  He joined TI after a career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which saw him elected worldwide chairman of the firm in 1997.  During his career there he championed the introduction of corporate social responsibility issues into PwC strategies. 


  • Dele Olojede

    International Advisory Council Chair 

    Dele joined GNI on June 10th, 2011 as the first inaugural chair of the International Advisory Council. 

    Dele is the publisher of NEXT, NextOnSunday and 234NEXT.com, which provide news and informed opinion primarily for a Nigerian audience to further the common good.  A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former foreign editor at New York Newsday, he is chairman of the Global Network Initiative International Advisory Council and a member of the governing board of the Aspen Institute's Africa Leadership Initiative. In 2010 the Global Forum for Ethics in Business honored him as an exemplar of ethical business leadership, and Fast Companynamed him the same year as one of the 100 Most Creative People. A frequent public speaker on the good society, Olojede earlier in his journalism career reported from more than 50 countries, as bureau chief for New York Newsday in Johannesburg, in Beijing, and at the United Nations. He was educated at the University of Lagos and Columbia University in New York, though all he ever needed to know he learned at Modakeke High. He persists at golf despite very little hope of ever getting very good at it.

    Read More »