Susan E. Rice

Susan Elizabeth Rice (born 1964) is an American foreign policy expert. She served on the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the second Bill Clinton administration, from October 1997 until January 20, 2001. Rice is currently on leave from the Brookings Institution as a senior foreign policy advisor to Democratic Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign.

She is not related to Condoleezza Rice.

Early life and education

Rice grew up in Washington, D.C., in the Shepherd Park neighborhood."The Meteoric Rise of the State Department's Susan Rice." "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education": 20 (Summer 1998), p. 40-41.] Her father is Emmett J. Rice a Cornell University economics professor and former governor of the Federal Reserve System. Her mother is education policy scholar Lois Dickson Fitt. Rice was a three-sport athlete, student council president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private day girls' school.Brant, Martha. " [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/janfeb/articles/rice.html Into Africa] ." "Stanford Magazine" January/February 2000.] At the National Cathedral School, she played point guard in basketball and directed the offense, and acquired the nickname "Spo," short for "Sportin.'"

Susan Rice is African American. Growing up her father told her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage" and as a young girl she "dreamed of becoming the first U.S. Senator from the District of Columbia." She also held "lingering fears" that her accomplishments would be diminished by people who attributed them to affirmative action.

She attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1986, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa."Susan Elizabeth Rice." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2007.Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRCDocument Number: K2014871257. Fee. Retrieved 2008-05-14.] . On her graduation day, as she shook hands with University President Donald Kennedy, he said "I know who you are."

She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended New College, Oxford, where she earned an M.Phil. in 1988 and D.Phil. in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation as the UK's most distinguished in international relations." [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/erc/reunions/black_alumni_hall.html Black Community Services Center Hall of Fame] ." Stanford Alumni Association.]

Career

Rice was a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during the 1988 presidential election. She was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, in the early 1990s.

Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: At the National Security Council from 1993 to 1997, as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995 and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs from 1995 to 1997. In 1997, she became Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997, serving in that capacity until Clinton left office on January 20, 2001.

Secretary of State Madeline Albright is a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice, who urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State. Rice was not the first choice of Congressional Black Caucus leaders, who considered Rice a member of "Washington's assimilationist black elite." Even at a confirmation hearing chaired by Senator Jesse Helms, Rice—who attended the hearing along with her infant son, whom she was then nursing—made a great impression on Senators from both parties and "sailed through the confirmation process."

As Assistant Secretary of State Rice was considered "young, brilliant, and ambitious," and she worked to "integrate Africa in the global economy while at the same time aiming to increase U.S. national security." At the same time, she was criticized for by detractors who considered her "authoritarian, brash, and unwilling to consider opinions that differ from her own," and reportedly having disputes from some career diplomats in the African bureau. "Newsweek" national correspondent Martha Brant wrote that:

Rice was managing director and principal at Intellibridge from 2001 to 2002.cite web
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quote= [inducted] 2002] In 2002, she joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development program. At Brookings she focuses on U.S. foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty, and transnational threats to security. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.

Rice is currently on leave from Brookings while working for the Obama for America campaign.

Rice was inducted into Stanford's Black Alumni Hall of Fame in 2002.

Affiliations

Susan Rice serves on the boards of several organizations, including the National Democratic Institute, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF,cite web
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publisher=U.S. Fund for UNICEF] board of directors of the Atlantic Council, [cite web
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publisher=The Atlantic Council of the United States] advisory board of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, [cite web
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quote= [Rice a director since 2004] ] board of directors of [http://www.ourpublicservice.org/OPS/about/ Partnership for Public Service] , the Beauvoir School, and past member of the Internews Network's board of directors. [cite web
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She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.cite web
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Awards

*recipient Walter Frewen Lord prize, Royal Commonwealth Society, 1990
*Association prize, Chatham House-British Internat. Studies, 1992
*Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial award (co-recipient), NSC, 2000.

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title=Meet Obama's 'Tenacious,' 'Take Charge' Dr. Rice
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quote=Susan Rice grew up in Washington, D.C., the daughter of an economist who served as a governor of the Federal Reserve, Emmett Rice, and an education policy scholar, Lois Rice.] She married television producer Ian O. Cameron 1992-09-12; they met as undergraduates at Stanford. Now they reside in Washington with their two children.cite web
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title=WEDDINGS; Susan E. Rice, Ian Cameron
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quote=Susan Elizabeth Rice, the daughter of Dr. Emmett J. Rice and Lois Dickson Fitt, both of Washington, was married there yesterday to Ian Officer Cameron...] [cite web
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quote=Senior Producer, World News with Charles Gibson, ABC News] cite web
url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/janfeb/articles/rice.html
title=Feature Story January February 2000 - Into Africa
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References

External links

* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/erieth.htm The Ethiopian-Eritrean War: U.S. Policy Options] Before the House Committee on International Relations, Africa Subcommittee, May 25, 1999. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
* [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/janfeb/articles/rice.html Into Africa]
*"Stanford Magazine" Martha Brant "She's young, she's impatient, she's blunt. Susan Rice is a different kind of diplomat." Jan/Feb 2000
* [http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/srice.htm Brookings Institution biography]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQj1aAPKAo4&feature=related Fox News Interview] with Laura Ingraham