Suzy Mahjoub

Saoussen Mahjoub, also known as Suzy, joins MEANS Database as Development Director. Previously, Suzy held the role of Chief Communications Officer at iCompass, an Artificial Intelligence/NLP startup focused on African Languages and Arabic dialects. She was in charge of communications, fundraising, and preparing for the next phase of iCompass’ growth and expansion in Africa and the Middle East. Prior to that, Suzy was an Advisor in Multicultural Marketing and Business Development with ALSAC, the fundraising organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 2011, she co-founded the Tunisian American Young Professionals (TAYP); a DC-based diaspora non-profit that promotes economic ties, cooperation and exchanges between Tunisia and the United States. Suzy holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Virginia (USA), with a concentration in Economics of the European Union (EU) and China, and a master’s degree in EU International Relations and Diplomacy from the College of Europe in Brugge (Belgium).