Susan E. Rice

	State Department U.S. Representative to the United Nations
	Confirmed: Jan. 22, 2009 Nominated: Jan. 20, 2009 Announced: Dec. 1, 2008

Bio

Age: 45
Education: Oxford University, PhD (1990); Stanford University, BA (1986)
From: Washington, DC
Ethnicity: Black

A native of Washington, Rice attended Stanford University, where she graduated with honors and met her future husband, Ian Cameron, who is executive producer of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” She won a Rhodes Scholarship and crossed the pond to attend Oxford University, where she earned her master’s and PhD in international relations. After a stint as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, Rice joined the Clinton administration's National Security Council as director for international organizations and peacekeeping. In 1995, she became a special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs and two years later moved into the role of assistant secretary of State for African Affairs. After George W. Bush was elected, she joined the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow. She took a leave from Brookings to serve as Obama's senior policy adviser during the campaign.

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Obama Campaign/Transition

Obama Transition Team, advisory board
Obama for America, senior foreign policy adviser

Last Job

Brookings Institution, senior fellow, Foreign Policy and Governance Studies Program

Other Jobs

State Department, assistant secretary of state for African affairs
National Security Council , special assistant to the president; senior director for African affairs
National Security Council, director for international organizations and peacekeeping
McKinsey & Company, management consultant