Louise Norton-Smith

Louise is the Director of External Affairs at CARB-X. Until 2023, she was Head of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Strategy at the UK Department of Health and Social Care, where she oversaw a wide range of globally facing AMR priorities, including the delivery of the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF), negotiating the UK government’s diplomatic priorities on AMR at G7/G20/UN level, and establishing the office of the UK Envoy on AMR.

She also held various domestic-facing policy, delivery, and legislative affairs roles at the department. Before joining the Civil Service in 2011, Louise was based in Paris and worked with Internews Europe, an international NGO specializing in media development and access to high-quality information.

She has also worked in Sudan and Uganda in humanitarian response and sexual and reproductive health projects. Louise has master’s degrees in social anthropology and geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and in international development from the University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France where she was an Entente Cordiale scholar. She is currently undertaking an MPH at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in her spare time.