About the Event:
Ambassador Susan Rice will recount her storied career and experiences as the National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, taking the Council behind the scenes of some of the recent national security challenges including increasingly-complicated relations with Russia and China, the battle against ISIS, Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and President Donald Trump's transition to the White House.
About the Speaker:
Susan Rice is an American diplomat who served as the 24th U.S. National Security Advisor from 2013-2017, playing a key role in the coordination of intelligence and military efforts within the Middle East during her tenure. In January 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination by former president Barack Obama as permanent Representative to the United Nations, becoming the first African American woman to serve in this position. From 2002-2009, Susan Rice was a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, focusing on the topics of U.S. foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty and transnational threats to security. Rice also served as assistant secretary of African Affairs in 1997, becoming one of the youngest assistant secretaries of state in U.S. history.
Prior to assuming her duties as U.N. representative and U.S. National Security Advisor, Rice worked at the National Security Council in Washington D.C. as the director of international organizations and peacekeeping before her post as special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs in 1995.
Susan Rice earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford in 1986, then attended the University of Oxford to earn her M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations.
