Susana de Deus is a Humanitarian Action and Development professional. Her career has been made with International Organizations such as World Vision International, International Red Cross, Oxfam GB and Médecins Sans Frontières, the latter being the one with which she has been most continuously for the last 15 years.  The areas of action that she has been working range from food security, water and sanitation, provision of medical care for displaced populations, refugees, victims of sexual violence and urban social exclusion and advocacy in these areas.

Her roles range from Project Coordination to National Coordination and National Director of Médecins Sans Frontières in Brazil, where she was more focused on the areas of operations research, international recruitment of humanitarian workers, communication and advocacy, and fundraising.

She has worked in Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Lebanon and Greece, Egypt, Poland and Ukraine.

Currently, she is a guest assistant professor at ISCTE, mentors coordinators of humanitarian projects and short assignments for field coordination missions, with Doctors Without Borders. She holds a PhD in Political Science with a specialty in International Relations and her areas of interest are the Triple Nexus of Humanitarian Action, development and the promotion of peace and the localization of these sectors.