Susan K. Pascocello is currently serving as the Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Ms. Pascocello previously served as the Acting General Counsel from September 2018 to present, February to June 2018, October 2016 to July 2017, March to July 2015, and from August 2012 to November 2013. She has served as the Deputy General Counsel since April 2012. She has also served as the Assistant General Counsel for the Economic Growth, Education and the Environment, Global Health, and Food Security Bureaus. Ms. Pascocello received a Senior Executive Service Distinguished Presidential Rank Award in 2015 and a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in 2010.
Prior to joining USAID in 2000, Ms. Pascocello worked in the area of securities market development as Senior Counsel in the Office of International Affairs and the Division of Investment Management at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was in private practice with Dechert, Price & Rhoads in Washington, D.C. and Curtis, Mallet- Prevost in New York.
Ms. Pascocello received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia. She received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and is admitted to the Bars of New York, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C.