Suzan G. LeVine
American diplomat
Suzan Gail LeVine (born November 17, 1969) is an American businesswoman and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2014 to 2017. She also served as assistant secretary in the Employment and Training Administration for seven months in 2021, and as Commissioner of the Washington State Employment Security Department in the administration of Governor Jay Inslee.
Early life and education
Suzan Gail LeVine was born near Philadelphia and grew up in Ventnor City, New Jersey. In 1993, she earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering with aerospace applications and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Brown University. She also received an honorary doctorate from EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, in October 2017.
Career
Information technology
LeVine's career started in technology with college summer internships at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage System's Center. She then started her first full-time job working on operating systems at Microsoft in 1993 where she worked on MS-DOS and then helped launch Windows 95. She ran communications for the Expedia IPO and stayed with Expedia until 2005, becoming Vice President of Sales & Marketing in the Luxury Travel Division. In 2009, she went back to Microsoft and focused on education until 2012.
Non-profit
In 2006, LeVine and Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum co-founded the Kavana Cooperative.
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