Kammala wannan jumla: Tsohon ɗan ƙungiyar Brookings Institution, Rice ta yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara kan manufofin waje ga 'yan takarar shugabancin Demokradiyya Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, da Barack Obama. Bayan da Obama ya lashe zaben shugaban kasa na 2008, an zabi Rice a matsayin Jakadan Majalisar Dinkin Duniya. Majalisar dattijai ta tabbatar da ita ta hanyar amincewa da juna a ranar 22 ga Janairu, 2009. A lokacin da take aiki a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, Rice ta ba da fifiko ga haƙƙin ɗan adam da tsarin yaƙi da talauci, ya ɗaga canjin yanayi da LGBT da haƙƙin mata a matsayin manyan abubuwan da suka dace a duniya, kuma ya ba da Amurka ga yarjejeniyoyi kamar Yarjejeniyar Rashin Yada Makaman Nukiliya, Yarjejeniyar kan Hakkokin nakasassu, da Manufofin Ci Gaban Millennium na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya. Ta kuma kare Isra'ila a Kwamitin Tsaro, ta matsa lamba don sanya takunkumi mai tsauri kan Iran da Koriya ta Arewa, kuma ta ba da shawara ga Amurka da NATO
shiga tsakani a Libya a shekarar 2011.