Suzanne Raine

Suzanne Elizabeth Raine (born 1970) is an academic who was elected Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge on October 1st 2025, succeeding the previous Master Roger Mosey. She was previously a civil servant at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, specialising in foreign policy, national security, and terrorism. Raine also works as an affiliated lecturer at the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and a visiting professor at King's College London , as well as serving as Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museums and Trustee of the Royal United Services Institute and International Bomber Command Centre.

Early life and education Raine was born in August 1970 in Germany.

Raine read History at Peterhouse College, of the University of Cambridge, specialising in German history. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1991, achieving a Double First, Raine also studied at Cambridge between 1992-1995 for a PhD but did not submit it due to joining the British Foreign Office.

Whilst working overseas as a civil servant in the British Foreign Office, Raine became a student at the National University of Modern Languages in Islamabad, and the University of Nizwa in Oman. Overseas, Raine took up posts in countries such as Poland, Iraq (2003) and Pakistan (2006-9). Prior to her posting in Pakistan, Raine spent time working in Jerusalem as Associate Producer of Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace (2005), a 3-part BBC TV series documenting the events of the Arab-Israeli peace process between 1998-2005.

Domestically, Raine led teams responsible for delivering national security objectives (2009-2012), including in preparation for the 2012 London Olympic Games. and Director of Counter-Terrorism (2017-19).

Personal life Raine is married to senior British diplomat and intelligence advisor John Raine OBE.