Susie Balch is the Associate Dean for Advancement at London Business School, where she has been for the last 11 years.  She has overall responsibility for alumni engagement and fundraising at the School.  Susie led the School’s first ever comprehensive fundraising campaign for £125 million which concluded in 2016 two years ahead of schedule and 25% ahead of goal.  The Advancement team manages relationships across the globe with the School’s vast international network of over 44,000 alumni.

Susie’s career spans over thirty years, running transformational campaigns for a variety of educational institutions.  Before relocating to the UK with her family in 2005, she worked in the United States where she played an integral role in several $125 million + fundraising campaigns.   The Institutions Susie has worked for include Harvard Law School, Hamilton College, Middlesex School, Buckingham Browne and Nichols School and the Chicago Waldorf School.

Susie received her BA in Political Science from Hamilton College and completed a certificate for the Accelerated Development Programme at LBS in 2010 and the Proteus programme in 2018.

Outside of the office, Susie is a member of the Advisory Council of the British Museum Friends.