Susan K. Pascocello is the Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development. She has served as the Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development since April 2012.  From November 2016 to June 2017, March 2015 to August 2015, and August 2012 to November 2013, Pascocello served as the Acting General Counsel for the Agency. She has also served as the Assistant General Counsel for the Economic Growth, Education and the Environment, Global Health, and Food Security Bureaus. Pascocello was a Senior Executive Service Distinguished Presidential Rank Award recipient in 2015, and a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award recipient in 2010.

Prior to joining USAID in 2000, 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.

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.