Distinguished Visiting Fellow Susan Rice

From 2002 to 2008, Susan Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she conducted research and published widely on US foreign policy, transnational security threats, weak states, global poverty, and development. Ambassador Rice served as US assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1997-2001. In that role, she formulated and implemented US policy towards 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and was responsible for the management of all of the US embassies and more than 5,000 US and Foreign Service national employees. Rice received her MPhil and DPhil in international relations from New College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She was awarded the Chatham House-British International Studies Association Prize for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in the United Kingdom in the field of international relations in 1990. Ambassador Rice received her BA in history with honors from Stanford University in 1986, where she was junior Phi Beta Kappa and a Truman Scholar.