Dame Susan Ilene Rice, Lady Rice, DBE, FRSE 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.
[1] She studied biology and philosophy of science at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, United States, graduating in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts.
[2] At Wellesley she met Scottish historian Sir Duncan Rice; they married shortly after her graduation and moved to Scotland.
[2] In September 2000 she was appointed chief executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland and so became the first woman to lead a British clearing bank.
[18] She chaired the Chartered Banker Professional Standards Board (CB:PSB),[8] a voluntary initiative supported by nine leading banks in the UK, which was established in October 2011.
[19] In 2008, the Edinburgh Festivals Forum was formed as a commission with strategic development role, appointing Rice as chair.
[1] In 2021, she was invited to become a Freeman of the City Rice was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to banking in the 2005 New Year Honours[23] and elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Business, the Arts and charity in the 2018 New Year Honours In 2005 she became Prince Charles's Ambassador for Corporate Social Responsibility in Scotland.