Susan Rice

American diplomat and policy advisor · United States · On the map · Politicians · Born 1964 · age 61

Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American former diplomat, policy advisor, and public official.

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2020“There is particular danger at the moment that powerful political alignments in the United States are pushing strongly to exacerbate the developing crisis with Russia.”In their words7 July 2020Russia-Baiting Is the Only Game in Town Washington again becomes hysterical, American Herald TribuneRead the whole statement

2019“I was blessed by parents who had come from pretty limited, modest circumstances, and had risen to the top of their fields.”In their words7 October 2019NPRRead the whole statement

2010Honorary Degree from Spelman CollegeAward1986Rhodes ScholarshipAward1964Born17 November 1964

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Susan E. Rice (middle) at the USCIRF hearings (November 27, 2001)

Rice with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, December 2008

Rice meets with Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, September 2012.

Rice meets with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 2014.

Rice and President Barack Obama meet with Saudi Arabia's minister of the national guard, Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, November 19, 2014.

President Obama and Rice speaking with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Putin's interpreter while attending the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey (the photo was not taken during an official meeting) November 15, 2015

Rice shakes hands with National Security Advisor Designate Michael Flynn on January 10, 2017.

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I was close to President Obama and he was a target…I'm an African American woman. I don't take crap off of people.
On being targeted for sharing intel about the Benghazi attack in “Susan Rice on Trump, Benghazi and motherhood: ‘Maybe I was an attractive, Own words

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Honorary Degree from Spelman College2010

Rhodes Scholarship1986

About this person

As a member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 22nd director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2021 to 2023, as the 27th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, and as the 23rd U.S. national security advisor from 2013 to 2017.

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United States