Louise Norton-Smith

Director of External Affairs

Louise Norton-Smith 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 broad range of globally-facing AMR priorities, including 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 a range of domestic-facing policy, delivery and legislative affairs roles at the department. Prior to 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.