Susan Young

Susan Young

Susan Young is responsible for strategic and horizontal policy within the federal zero plastic waste and circular plastics economy initiative at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). She has worked on sustainability issues in both the public and private sectors since 1992.

Her first government positions were at Global Affairs Canada, in the Environment and Southeast Asia Divisions. She then spent four years each at the Canadian Environment Industry Association, and as a consultant at Marbek, a national environmental consulting firm in Ottawa. After several years abroad with small children, she returned to Global Affairs where she held positions in multilateral programs, until joining ECCC in 2017.

Susan holds a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Université Laval, and a post-graduate diploma in Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management from the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy at the University of London in the U.K.