Vanessa Sussman

Vanessa Sussman

Vanessa Sussman is the chief marketing and communications officer for Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. Her years of experience in communications and marketing, as well as her deep interest in international relations, inform her work, driving the firm's brand recognition, growth and success across platforms.

Prior to joining Eurasia Group, Vanessa was head of corporate communications, private markets, at Nuveen, the $1.2 trillion asset manager of financial planning firm TIAA. She previously served as vice president of marketing and communications at Morningstar and also ran her own boutique communications firm specializing in exchange-traded funds. She has worked at the Council of the Americas, Foreign Policy magazine and the United States Mission to the United Nations.

Vanessa is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese, French and Italian, with over a decade's experience working, living and traveling throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. She has a master's degree in economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of International Affairs and a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Latin American and Iberian studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a member of the Museum's Communications Executives Advisory Panel since 2018.