Susan Horton holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University and an AM and PhD also in Economics from Harvard. She holds a research chair in Global Health Economics at University of Waterloo. She is also
a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She has worked in over 20 low- and middle-income countries and has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, several United Nations agencies, and the International Development Research Centre, among others. She led the paper on nutrition for the Copenhagen Consensus in 2008, when micronutrients were ranked as the top development priority. She also led the costing for global nutrition work in the Lancet 2013 series on nutrition, and for the 2009 World Bank Scaling up Nutrition book. Current projects include participating in the Lancet Commission on children's cancers in low and middle income countries, a Lancet Commission on Diagnostics, and a project working with small and medium-scale enterprises in Tanzania to fortify sunflower oil. She has been a Chair, Associate Dean and Interim Dean at University of Toronto Scarborough, Vice-President Academic at Laurier, and Graduate Dean at University of Waterloo.