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Dr. Susan Rice is Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where she is examining the national security implications of global poverty and inequality. She also works on related issues, including transnational security threats, failed states, post conflict peace-building, UN peace operations, and new strategies for corporate social responsibility investing. Dr. Rice served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997-2001. From 1995-1997, Dr. Rice was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) and, from 1993-1995, was Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the NSC. Prior to her White House tenure, Rice was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, where she served clients in the oil and gas, steel, transportation, retail, public/non-governmental and pulp/paper sectors. Dr. Rice received a B.A. in History from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D)degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.