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Susan Yashar

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    Susan Yashar has over ten years of leadership experience with the leading profes-sional services organization in the world. She is known for her pragmatic, forward thinking approach to operating and transforming global business in fast changing business, regulatory and legal environments, and in managing crisis events around the globe.

    Susan retired from Deloitte Global in February 2023 where she served as the Global Deputy CEO and General Counsel and was a longstanding member of the Global Executive. She served at the top leadership level of the organization, comprised of the Global CEO and 3 Global Deputy CEOs, and had direct responsibility for Global Risk, Legal and Ethics/Anti-Corruption functions. Susan also served as the Global Chief Risk Officer for Deloitte from 2020-2021, guiding the organization through the first year of the pandemic.

    Susan has extensive experience in the public sector. Most recently, Susan served as the Associate General Counsel (Enforcement and International) at the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Prior to that, Susan served in a number of leadership positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she transformed the international enforcement program to ensure coordination and collaboration with foreign counterparts, and prior to that, investi-gated and prosecuted securities laws violations. Susan began her legal career as a litigator, first in Seattle, Wash. and later in Washington, D.C.

    Susan has received several awards and recognitions, including the Collaborative Leadership Award bestowed by the Women of Influence and Power, the Women Who Dared Award bestowed by the National Council of Jewish Women NY, the Legal Global Honor for General Counsel and Law Departments bestowed by the Directors’ Roundtable Institute, and the Silver Shingle Award for Service to the Profession bestowed by Boston University Law School.

    In her free time, Susan enjoys yoga, Pilates, golf, and cooking. She resides in Washington, D.C.

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