Suzanne Wild has been appointed as High Sheriff for the County of Down for 2024.

Suzanne Wild was educated in Belfast and went on to complete a BA in Hotel Management and an MA in Marketing in Glasgow and London. A management career in Hospitality and Tourism in Scotland and England followed before taking the opportunity to develop and share her skills as a Senior Lecturer and later course Director on BA and MSc programmes in Marketing and Tourism. She was a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and a Member of the Institute of Marketing. She has been involved in curriculum development at universities in Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, and Slovakia. She has over 18 years of experience as a consultant in tourism and management development through the British Council and EU in, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She returned to County Down in 2004 and accepted a part time teaching post in Newry delivering modules for Ulster University. She joined the fundraising committee for Mencap Northern Ireland.

Following her retirement from teaching and having always had an interest in her husband’s career as a Consultant Neurologist, who specialised in epilepsy, she became an accredited volunteer and fundraiser for Epilepsy Action NI delivering training courses and presentations in Northern Ireland on behalf of the charity.