Susan Wallace is the Head of the Policymaking Core of the International Working Group on Ethics, Governance and Public Participation of the P³G Consortium.  Her research interests include examining the policy implications of population biobanking; the policy implications related to ethics review of human subjects research; public health ethics and public health genetics. She is also Associate Editor of the journal, Public Health Genomics.

Immediately prior to joining the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) at the Université de Montréal, Susan was Policy Officer (Humanities) at the Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park, in Cambridge, UK. She has also been Director of the Americas Office of the Human Genome Organisation in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, in Biotechnological Law and Ethics.