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Former U.S. National Security Advisor (2013-17)
Ambassador Susan E. Rice served President Barack Obama as National Security Advisor fr om July 1, 2013 to January 20, 2017. In that role, she led the National Sec urity Council Staff, chaired the Cabinet level National Security Principals Committee, provided the President’s daily National Security briefing, and was responsible for the coordination and integration of all aspects of the administration’s foreign and National Security policy, intelligence and mil itary efforts.
From January 2009 until assuming the role of National Security Advisor in July 2013, Rice served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. At the UN, she worked to advance U.S. interests, de fend universal values, strengthen the world’s common security and prosperit y, and promote respect for human rights. Under Rice’s leadership, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations helped win the stiffest UN sanctions ever aga inst Iran and North Korea, unprecedented action to prevent the proliferatio n of nuclear weapons and materials, support for life-saving interventions i n Libya and Cote d’Ivoire, cooperation on the referendum for independence i n Southern Sudan, vital UN assistance in Afghanistan and Iraq, stalwart sup port for Israel’s security and legitimacy, and progress on reform of the fl awed UN Human Rights Council.
Prior to serving as U.S. Permanent Repr esentative to the UN, Rice served as Senior Advisor for National Security A ffairs on the Obama for America Campaign and later on the Advisory Board of the Obama-Biden Transition and as co-chair of its policy working group on National Security. From 2002-09, she was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings I nstitution, where she focused on U.S. foreign policy, transnational securit y threats, weak states, global poverty and development.
From 1997 to 2001, Rice was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. I n this position, she formulated and implemented U.S. policy for 48 countrie s in Sub-Saharan Africa and oversaw the management of 43 U.S. Embassies and more than 5,000 U.S. and Foreign Service national employees. In 2000, Rice was co-recipient of the White House’s 2000 Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Awa rd for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful, cooperativ e relationships between states. From 1995-97, Ambassador Rice served as Spe cial Assistant to President William J. Clinton and Senior Director for Afri can Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House. From 1993- 95, she served as the Director for International Organizations and Peacekee ping on the National Security Council staff. Previously, Ambassador Rice wa s a management consultant with McKinsey and Company in Toronto, Canada, and served on numerous boards, including the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), National Democratic Institute and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
Rice rec eived her master’s and doctoral degrees in International Relations from New College, Oxford University, England, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She w as awarded the Chatham House-British International Studies Association Priz e for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in the United Kingdom in the field of International Relations. Ambassador Rice received her BA in H istory with honors from Stanford University, where she was named junior Phi Beta Kappa and was a Truman Scholar.
In 2017, French President Franc ois Hollande presented Rice with the award of Commander, the Legion of Hono r of France, for her contributions to Franco-American relations.