Amb. Susan Rice's Speech at NYU Spotlights New Approach to the UN
Susan E. Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, delivered her first public statements on the Obama Administration's work at the UN in an address at NYU on August 12, 2009. The event was hosted by the NYU Center for Global Affairs and NYU Center on International Cooperation.
Her speech, “A New Course in the World, A New Approach at the United Nations,” highlighted the need for the United States to change its approach at the world body in order to properly confront an array of global challenges, including nuclear proliferation, poverty, and human rights violations.
About H.E. Ambassador Susan E. Rice
Confirmed unanimously to the position of ambassador and permanent representative of the United States to the UN by the U.S. Senate in January 2009, Susan E. Rice served as a senior advisor for national security affairs on the Obama for America Campaign. She later served on the Advisory Board of the Obama-Biden Transition and as co-chair of its policy working group on national security.
From 2002 to 2009, Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution where she focused on U.S. foreign policy, transnational security threats, weak states, global poverty, and development. From 1997 to 2001, she was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. From 1995 to 1997, Rice served as Special Assistant to President William J. Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House. Previously, she served as the Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping on the National Security Council staff from 1993 until 1995.
