Sundaa Bridgett-Jones is Vice President for the Americas and Chief Partnerships Officer at The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet.  She drives an innovative partnership construct for the alliance, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund, and has leveraged billions to date to end energy poverty through just and clean energy transitions in developing and emerging economies.

Bridgett-Jones has long-time experience designing and leading high-impact global initiatives. She served as Vice President for Policy & Coalitions at The Rockefeller Foundation. Across her portfolio priorities, she has executed strategies to grow coalitions for pressing issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, equity and economic opportunity, financing development, and U.S.-China relations.

Prior to that, she led the Office of Policy Planning and Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in groundbreaking advocacy on internet and religious freedoms. As a member of the White House National Security Staff interagency committee, she helped develop the Open Government Partnership, a featured public-private partnership launched by President Barack Obama’s administration and the Government of Brazil.

Previously, Bridgett-Jones managed c-suite affairs at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs and devised preventive diplomacy plans in South Asia. As an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, she wrote about U.S. foreign policy and democracy promotion after a decade of leading governance initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Bridgett-Jones served with the U.S. Foreign Service in the Middle East, Southern Africa, and Central Asia — her final assignment was as an USAID representative to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, where she set up the first Transitional National Assembly.

Bridgett-Jones serves on the Leadership Council for Women in National Securityand is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She advises iMMAP (an international humanitarian non-profit) and the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund. She is a University of Pittsburgh Trustee and chaired the Board’s Institutional Advancement Committee. Bridgett-Jones holds a master’s degree in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s degreein international affairs and African studies from Georgetown University.