Susan Rice

Ambassador Susan E. Rice most recently served as Domestic Policy Advisor to President Joe Biden from January 2021 to May 2023. Previously, Amb. Rice was President Obama’s National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009-2017, and a member of the Cabinet. She is the only person to have served in the White House as both National Security Advisor and Domestic Policy Advisor.

During the Clinton Administration, Rice was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, as well as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the National Security Council. Rice began her career as a management consultant and worked for several years at the Brookings Institution as a Senior Fellow.

The author of the New York Times bestselling 2019 memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Rice was previously a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at American University, Visiting Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center, and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. She recently rejoined the Board of Directors of Netflix, having served previously from 2018-2021.

Rice received her B.A. in History from Stanford University and her master’s degree and doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. A native of Washington, DC, she is married and has two grown children.