Suzan G. LeVine

She now serves on the CareerWise Colorado board, the Markle Foundation's Rework America Task Force, ETH's CEMETS International Advisory Board, and the Seattle Region Partnership. She also served on Governor Inslee's Career Connect Taskforce which completed its work and made its recommendations Feb 20, 2018.

Suzan "Suzi" LeVine served as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from June 2014 until January 2017 during which time she expanded foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S., helped counter violent extremism, enabled American citizens in Switzerland to regain access to banking services, and advanced the global diversity dialogue. She also championed female participation in entrepreneurship and technical fields, supporting women in both corporations and universities.

While in Switzerland, she was instrumental in the signing of a Joint Declaration of Intent between Switzerland and the United States to collaborate on apprenticeship and partnered with 30 companies to bring and/or expand their Swiss style apprenticeship model into the United States. She also secured billions of dollars in investment and hundreds of jobs into the United States – with $3B alone announced at a special White House round table she catalyzed with Swiss business and government leaders.

She won the Microsoft Alumni Foundation "Beacon Award" in 2013 for community leadership and inspiration, the Helen M. Jackson "Woman of Valor" award in 2008, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Spitzer Young Leadership award in 2007. In 2012, she was awarded a Wexner Fellowship for her leadership in the Seattle Jewish community.

In 2006, she and Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum co-founded The Kavana Cooperative, a post-denominational innovative approach to building a meaningful Jewish community. At the same time, she co-founded the advisory board for the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington with Bill Henningsgaard - one of the world's leading early learning research institutes.

LeVine was born near Philadelphia and grew up in Ventnor, 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 Degree from EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, in October 2017.

Her 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.

Suzan Gail LeVine (born November 17, 1969) was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein on May 30, 2014 and took up her position in Bern on June 2, 2014. Reflecting her work in technology, LeVine took her oath of office while placing a hand on a Kindle containing the U.S. Constitution and, thereby, became the first U.S. official to be sworn in on an e-reader. She resigned her post in Bern on January 20, 2017. On July 9, 2018, she joined Governor Jay Inslee's cabinet as the new Commissioner of the Employment Security Department.