Protected: Amb. Susan E. Rice

(Virtual Participant) Amb. Susan E. Rice is the domestic policy advisor in the Biden Administration. As director of the Domestic Policy Council, she drives the formulation and implementation of President Biden’s domestic policy agenda, from economic mobility and racial equity to health care and immigration. She previously served as President Obama’s U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and National Security Advisor from 2009 to 2017. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.

Amb. Rice was most recently a distinguished visiting research fellow at American University’s School of International Service and a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to the start of the Biden Administration, she was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

Previously, Amb. Rice served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, special assistant to the President and senior director for African Affairs, and director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the National Security Council under President Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

Amb. Rice received her master’s degree and PhD in international relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her BA with honors in history from Stanford University.