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Susan E. Rice (42), senior fellow, foreign policy studies and Global Economy and Development Program, The Brookings Institution. From October 1997 until January 2001, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, where she was responsible for formulating and implementing overall U.S. policy towards 48 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, and for public advocacy of U.S. policy towards Africa. From 1995 to 1997, Rice was a Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and was Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council, responsible for coordinating inter-agency formulation and implementation of U.S. government policy towards Africa. From 1993 to 1995, she was the Director, International Organizations & Peacekeeping, National Security Council, where she coordinated the Clinton Administration’s policy towards the United Nations system as well as regional and U.N. peacekeeping matters. From 1991 to 1993, she was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company.
Rice is a graduate of Stanford University. She earned a Master of Philosophy degree and a D.Phil (Ph.D.) degree in International Relations from New College, Oxford University. She serves on the boards of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the Beauvoir School, Stanford University’s Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Partnership for Public Service, and the Atlantic Council. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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