Biography

Susan Rice (born 17 November 1964), United Nations Ambassador and foreign policy adviser, attended Stanford University and the University of Oxford in Oxfordshire, where she majored in international affairs.

She served on President Bill Clinton‘s National Security Council and oversaw African affairs before joining the Brookings Institution.

Susan Rice joined President Barack Obama‘s Cabinet in 2009 after receiving Senate confirmation to be the United Nations ambassador.

Later, she served as National Security Adviser during President Barack Obama‘s second term.

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Full Name:	Susan Elizabeth Rice
Stage Name:	Susan Rice
Born:	17 November 1964 (age 59 years old)
Place of Birth:	Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality:	American
Height:	1.62 m
Parents:	Emmett J. Rice, Lois D. Rice
Siblings:	John Rice
Husband • Spouse:	Ian O. Cameron (m. 1992)
Boyfriend • Partner:	N/A
Children:	Jake Rice-Cameron, Maris Rice-Cameron
Occupation:	Politician
Net Worth:	US$40 million

Early Life & Education

Susan Elizabeth Rice was born in Washington, D.C., on November 17, 1964. She has a brother whose name is John Rice.

Her family is well-known among the Washington elite. Her father, Emmett J. Rice, is a Cornell University economics professor and former Federal Reserve System governor, and her mother, Lois D. Rice, is an education policy researcher and Brookings Institution guest scholar.

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Susan Rice went to the National Cathedral School, a preparatory school in Washington, D.C. She excelled academically, became class valedictorian, and demonstrated political acumen as the student council president. She also enjoyed sports, participating in three different sports and eventually becoming a star point guard on the basketball team.

After graduating, Susan Rice went on to attend Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She pushed herself to succeed in college. She not only received Departmental Honors and University Distinction, but she was also named a Harry S. Truman Scholar, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.

She raised the ire of top administrators by establishing a fund that withheld alumni donations until the university either stopped investing in South African companies or the country ended apartheid.

Career

After graduating from Oxford, Susan Rice‘s first full-time job was as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Toronto, where she worked from 1990 to early 1992.

Her public service profession began in 1993 when she joined former President Bill Clinton‘s National Security Council (NSC). She worked as the Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping until 1995, and then as the president’s special assistant and senior director for African affairs until 1997.

She was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997 and served in that capacity until 2001. Due to that, she became one of the youngest assistant secretaries of state history.

Susan Rice‘s responsibilities included developing and implementing US policy in 48 Sub-Saharan African countries and overseeing the operations of 43 US embassies and 5,000 US and Foreign Service national employees.

During her tenure, she worked on the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement (Congo), the Lomé Peace Accord (Sierra Leone), and the peace talks between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which resulted in the Algiers Agreement in 2000.

The White House honoured her the same year with the Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for her efforts to foster peaceful and cooperative relations among states.

After a brief stint as a managing director and principal at Intellibridge, Susan Rice became a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in 2002.

She researched US foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty, and transnational security threats at the institute, which focuses on independent research and makes recommendations to the government.

A few years later, in 2004, she became John Kerry‘s foreign policy adviser during his presidential campaign.

She left the Brookings Institution in 2008 to become Barack Obama‘s senior foreign policy adviser during his presidential campaign.

Following his election, Barack Obama nominated Susan Rice to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations in December 2008, and she was confirmed by the Senate in January of the following year. She was also appointed to the cabinet.

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With this appointment, she became the second-youngest person and the first African-American woman to represent the United States at the United Nations.

During her tenure, she received praise for her efforts that resulted in the UN Security Council imposing harsh sanctions on Iran and North Korea for their nuclear programs.

She also advocated for human rights, women’s rights, LGBT rights, and increased awareness of climate change.
She was critical in obtaining UN approval for military action in Libya.

Susan Rice stated in September 2012, following the attack on two American facilities in Benghazi, Libya, it was spontaneously inspired by a violent protest in Cairo against a hateful internet video. It was revealed that the attack was carried out by an extremist group.

She was relentlessly chastised for deceiving the public; however, no subsequent investigation concluded that she had done so on purpose.

As a result, she withdrew her name from consideration for the United States Secretary of State position.

President Barack Obama appointed her as National Security Advisor in July 2013, and she held the position until January 2017.

During her tenure, Susan Rice worked on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the Ebola crisis, normalizing relations between Cuba and the United States, combating Islamic State, and the Paris Agreement on climate change.

After her term ended, she became a distinguished visiting research fellow at American University’s School of International Service (SIS).

She was appointed to be one of the board of directors of Netflix, an American OTT content platform and production company, in March 2018.

She will join the Biden-Harris Transition Team‘s advisory council in September 2020.

Joe Biden appointed her as the White House’s top domestic policy advisor in December 2020.

Susan Rice has written several books, the most recent of which is her memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, which was published in 2019. The book was well received and became a New York Times bestseller.

Before this, she co-edited Confronting Poverty: The weak States and US National Security with former Brookings colleagues Corinne Graff and Carlos Pascual in 2010.

She also co-authored Index of State Weakness in the Developing World (2008) with Stewart Patrick and Poverty and Civil War: What Policymakers Need to Know (2006) with Corinne Graff and Janet Lewis.

Personal Life

Susan Rice is married to Ian O. Cameron which occured in 1992. The union is blessed with two children; a son named Jake Rice-Cameron and a daughter named Maris Rice-Cameron.

Susan Rice and her husband, Ian O. Cameron, currently live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.

Net Worth

Susan Rice has a net worth of US$40 million. This estimate is based on a calculation of her wealth, which includes her assets, income, and investments.

She has amassed a considerable fortune due to her 20+ years of diplomatic service, with her primary source of income being as a diplomat.

Social Media

• Twitter: @AmbassadorRice
• Instagram: @ambsusanrice