Susan Rice

Dame Susan Ilene Rice, Lady Rice, is a British banker, company and charity director and Chair of Scottish Water, Business Stream, North American Income Trust, and non-executive director of the Office for Budget Responsibility. In 2000 she became the first women to lead a British clearing bank. Early life Born Susan Ilene Wunsch on 7 March 1946, she grew up in Rhode Island, in the United States. She studied biology and philosophy of science at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, United States, graduating in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts. At Wellesley she met Scottish historian Sir Duncan Rice; they married shortly after her graduation and moved to Scotland. She then studied philosophy of science at University of Aberdeen, gaining a Master of Letters in 1970. Rice and her husband returned to the United States. Initially a published medical researcher in molecular biology, she became an associate dean at Yale. She was then Dean of Saybrook College, Yale University (1978–80). In 1981, she moved to upstate New York and worked as Dean of Students at Colgate University.