Susan E. Rice

Ambassador Susan E. Rice is the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at FSI in Spring Quarter 2024.

As a Liautaud Fellow, Rice is deeply enmeshed in the daily intellectual life of FSI, with simultaneous affiliations with the Institute’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), the Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL), and the Cyber Policy Center (CPC), where she will be focused on the issue of governance of artificial intelligence. She also has an affiliation at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), as a distinguished visiting fellow.

Prior to her appointment at Stanford, Rice served as domestic policy advisor to President Joe Biden. Previously, she was President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of the Cabinet. During the Clinton Administration, Rice was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, as well as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, and Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the National Security Council.

Rice is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For,” which describes pivotal moments from her career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy. Rice received her B.A. in History from Stanford with honors and received a master's degree and doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.