Suzanne Raine is the Master of Selwyn College.

Suzanne graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in History. She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She was Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017 and Director of Counter-Terrorism from 2017-19.

Since leaving the civil service in 2019 she has engaged with academia through the Centre for Geopolitics in Cambridge and as a Visiting Professor at Kings College London. She writes and lectures on risk analysis, anticipation and warning. She is a member of the Public Interest Board of Ernst & Young LLP and is currently also Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world's oldest think tank.

Suzanne is married to John. They enjoy long distance walking and are in the process of walking to the Isle of Skye from Derby.

She was elected Master of Selwyn College in 2025.

Last updated 1 October 2025