Ambassador Susan E. Rice served as Domestic Policy Advisor to President Joe Biden from January 2021 to May 2023. Previously, Rice served as U.S. National Security Advisor, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of the Cabinet, under President Obama from 2009-2017. She is the only person to have served in the White House as both National Security Advisor and Domestic Policy Advisor.

In her role as National Security Advisor from July 1, 2013, to January 20, 2017, Ambassador Rice led the National Security Council Staff and chaired the Cabinet level National Security Principals Committee. She provided the President daily national security briefings and was responsible for coordinating the formulation and implementation of all aspects of the Administration's foreign and national security policy, intelligence, and military efforts.

As U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Rice worked to advance U.S. interests, defend universal values, strengthen international security and prosperity, and promote respect for human rights. In a world of 21st Century threats that pay no heed to borders, Ambassador Rice helped rebuild an effective basis for international cooperation that strengthened the United States’ ability to achieve its foreign policy objectives and made the American people safer.

Ambassador Rice served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 – 2001. In that role, she formulated and implemented U.S. policy towards 48 countries 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. Rice was co-recipient of the White House's 2000 Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful, cooperative relationships between states. From 1993-1997, she served as Special Assistant to President William J. Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House, as well as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping on the National Security Council staff.

The author of the New York Times bestselling 2019 memoir, “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For”, Rice was previously a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at American University, Visiting Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center, and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, a Senior Advisor at the RAND Corporation, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a member of the Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Netflix Inc.

Ambassador Rice began her career as a management consultant. She has served on numerous boards, including the Bureau of National Affairs, National Democratic Institute and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Rice received her Master's degree (M.Phil.) and Ph.D (D.Phil.) in International Relations from New College, Oxford University, England, 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. Ambassador Rice received her B.A. in History with honors from Stanford University, where she was awarded junior Phi Beta Kappa and was a Truman Scholar. In 2017, French President Francois Hollande presented Ambassador Rice with the Award of Commander, the Legion of Honor of France, for her contributions to Franco-American relations. A native of Washington DC, Ambassador Rice is married and has two grown children.