Susan E. Rice

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Susan E. Rice (2019)

Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964 in Washington, DC ) is an American foreign policy maker . From 1997 to 2001 she was assistant secretary of state for African Affairs at the Presidency of Bill Clinton and 2009-2013 UN - Ambassador of the United States. From 2013 to 2017 she was National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama .

She was traded as a possible vice president under Joe Biden .

Family and education

Rice grew up in Shepherd Park, Washington . Her father, Emmett J. Rice, was an economics professor at Cornell University and governor of the Federal Reserve . Her mother was Lois Dickson Rice (1933-2017), who in 1978 married Alfred Bradley Fitt , who became the stepfather of Susan E. Rice.

Rice attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC, a private girls' school, and played there on the basketball team in the position of point guard .

Rice attended Stanford University on a Truman Scholarship and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa . She graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in history . On a Rhodes Scholarship , she attended New College at the University of Oxford , where she earned a Masters degree in 1988 and a PhD in International Relations in 1990 .

In 1992 Rice married ABC News producer Ian Cameron, whom she met while studying at Stanford. The couple lives in Washington with their two children.

Professional and political career

During the presidential campaign in 1988 , she worked for the Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis . In the early 1990s, she worked as a management assistant at McKinsey & Company .

Under President Clinton

She held various functions during Bill Clinton's presidency . From 1993 to 1997 she was a member of the National Security Council , first as Head of Department for International Organizations and Peacekeeping, and from 1995 as Assistant to the President and Head of Department for African Affairs. In Clinton's second term, she became Undersecretary of State for African Affairs in 1997 and remained in that position until the end of Clinton's presidency on January 20, 2001. Then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is a longtime mentor of Rice and a friend of the family who recommended Bill Clinton that Rice be made Secretary of State. As Undersecretary of State, Rice was considered "young, brilliant and ambitious" and worked to integrate Africa into the global economy. Critics accused her of being "authoritarian, harsh and unwilling to consider opinions other than her own."

Between 2001 and 2009

Rice was executive director of Intellibridge Int. , an internet-based information and analysis company. Rwandan President Paul Kagame was one of her customers .

In 2002 she joined the Brookings Institution as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and Aid, specializing in American foreign policy , weak and failed states , the effects of global poverty, and international threats to US national security . She is currently on leave of absence from the Brookings Institution.

In the election campaign of the Democrat John Kerry for the 2004 presidential election , Rice was his foreign policy advisor. She held the same role in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign . The day after Obama's election victory, she was appointed to the body that was supposed to handle the transition of government from George W. Bush to Barack Obama.

Under President Obama

On December 1, 2008, Obama announced that he would nominate Rice for the office of United States Ambassador to the United States. On January 22, the US Senate unanimously confirmed her for this office.

During the civil war in Libya in 2011, Rice spread the rumor that Gaddafi was using Viagra-assisted mass rape as a weapon. US military and intelligence agencies immediately disagreed, stating that there was no evidence.

Rice was considered the favorite to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State , who had withdrawn from politics after Obama's re-election . In mid-December 2012, however, Rice announced that she was not available as a possible successor to Clinton. The Republican Party had previously threatened to prevent her possible Senate appointment . Rice came under fire after the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, because she still rated the incident as a spontaneous protest days later.

Rice with Israeli President Shimon Peres in May 2014

As of July 1, 2013, Rice was a White House Security Advisor. She followed Tom Donilon . Samantha Power took over her post at the United Nations . She resigned from office with the end of the Obama presidency on January 20, 2017.

According to a report by Spiegel Online, Rice is said to have praised NSA wiretapping, because in the run-up to a UN Security Council vote on sanctions against Iran, she was always “informed about the views of other countries”, which she benefited from during the negotiations.

Since 2017

After the end of Obama's presidency, Rice assumed various offices and positions. She works as a Senior Fellow at the American University (School of International Service) and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs). She has been a member of the Board of Directors at Netflix since March 2018 .

After Susan Collins , who is a Republican member of the United States Senate for the state of Maine , voted for controversial Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh in early October despite allegations of sexual assault, Rice announced at one Collins' challenge to be interested in the next 2020 election . Although Rice does not live in Maine, her grandparents arrived there as immigrants in 1912, and she has a vacation home there that she visits every year.

For some time she was considered a possible candidate for the seat of Maine in the 2020 United States Senate election , but ultimately refrained from doing so. In late July 2020, the New York Times reported that Rice was part of the group of politicians that Joe Biden is considering as running mate for the 2020 presidential election . The report mentions Kamala Harris , Elizabeth Warren , Tammy Duckworth and Gretchen Whitmer as other possible candidates for the vice presidency . Rice's lack of campaign experience and her handling of the processing of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, are disadvantageous .

activities

Susan Rice is represented on several committees of various institutions, including institutions such as the National Democratic Institute , US Fund for UNICEF , Atlantic Council , the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, Bureau of National Affairs , or the Beauvoir School . She was on the board of Internews .

She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ USA: Amy Klobuchar renounces the candidacy as a possible US Vice President. In: Der Spiegel . Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Axios: Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b c d "The Meteoric Rise of the State Department's Susan Rice." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Volume 20, 1998, pp. 40-41.
  4. ^ Alfred Fitt, US Lawyer, Weds Lois Rice, College Board Executive , nytimes, January 8, 1978 (accessed July 29, 2020)
  5. ^ A b Martha Brant: Into Africa. ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Stanford Magazine. January / February 2000. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stanfordalumni.org
  6. ^ A b Black Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees. In: Stanford Alumni - Reunion Homecoming 2008. February 2008.
  7. ^ Board of Directors - Susan E. Rice, Ph.D. ( Memento of November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Partnership of Public Service ; Weddings: Susan E. Rice, Ian Cameron. In: The New York Times , September 13, 1992.
  8. ↑ a b Jari Väliverronen: Susan Rice, Former White House and State Department Senior Official, Joins Brookings Institution ( English ) Brookings Institution. September 13, 2002. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
  9. ^ A b Susan Rice ( English ) US Fund for UNICEF. Archived from the original on June 25, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
  10. ↑ HELENE COOPER: UN Ambassador Questioned on US Role in Congo Violence. In: The New York Times , December 9, 2012.
  11. ^ Sweet, Lynn Jarrett, Podesta, Rouse to lead Obama transition; Bill Daley co-chair. ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Chicago Sun-Times , November 5, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.suntimes.com
  12. ↑ Press release from the Obama office ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 1, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / change.gov
  13. ^ Fog of War: No, Pfizer Is Not Supplying Ghadafi's Troops With Viagra for Mass Rapes. In: CBS News , 2011.
  14. ↑ Clinton successor: Obama's favorite Rice no longer likes. In: Spiegel Online , December 13, 2012.
  15. ↑ New Security Advisor: Obama Trusts Susan Rice. In: Stern.de , June 5, 2013.
  16. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: NSA: US security advisor Rice praised wiretapping - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Todd Spangler: Netflix Names Former Obama Adviser and UN Ambassador Susan Rice to Board. In: Variety.com , March 28, 2018.
  18. ^ John Wagner: Susan Rice says she'll decide after midterm elections whether to challenge Susan Collins in 2020. In: The Washington Post , October 8, 2018.
  19. ↑ Alexander Burns: Susan Rice Wants to Run for Office. Will Her First Campaign Be for VP? New York Times, July 27, 2020, accessed July 28, 2020.
  20. ^ The Atlantic Council of the United States - Board Members ( English ) The Atlantic Council of the United States. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
  21. ↑ Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Annual Report 2007 ( English , PDF, 3 MB) Stanford University. S. 47. 2007. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 6, 2008.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / iis-db.stanford.edu
  22. ↑ Bolbach, Cynthia J .: Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( English ) The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc .. S. 3. 28 March 2008. Accessed 13 May 2008 .
  23. ↑ 2003 Annual Report ( English , PDF) Internews International. P. 10. 2003. Archived from the original on June 25, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
  24. ↑ Internews - Directors and Officers ( English ) Internews International. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
  25. ^ Aspen Strategy Group ( English ) Aspen Institute. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
predecessor Office successor
George Moose Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
1997-2001 		Walter H. Kansteiner
personal data
SURNAME Rice, Susan E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rice, Susan Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC