Susan Rice is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and former public official who – in former President Barack Obama’s administration – worked as the US national security advisor from 2013 to 2017 and the US ambassador to the UN from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African-American woman to become US representative at the UN. In between in 2012, she was seen as the likely successor of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; however, the controversy following the Benghazi attack led her to withdraw her name. She was instead appointed the national security advisor. Before joining Barrack Obama’s administration, she was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Still earlier, she was a part of former President Bill Clinton's NSC staff and also served as his assistant secretary of state for African affairs. An excellent student, Rice won Truman scholarship and National Merit scholarship while studying at Stanford University and Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University. In December 2020, she was selected by President-elect Joe Biden as top White House Domestic Policy adviser.
