John G. Rice

John G. Rice retired as vice chairman of the General Electric Company in April 2018, after a 40-year career with the company. He briefly returned as chairman of GE’s Gas Power business from December 2018 to August 2020. Rice held several leadership positions across the United States, Canada, and Singapore, and from 2010, he led GE’s global operations from Hong Kong. Prior to that, he served as vice chairman of GE and president and CEO of GE Technology Infrastructure; as vice chairman of GE’s industrial and infrastructure businesses from 2005 to 2007; as president and CEO of GE Energy from 2000 to 2005; and as president and CEO of GE Transportation from 1997 to 2000.

Rice holds a B.A. in economics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he is a life trustee. He has served as a director of Baker Hughes and AIG and was previously a director of Li and Fung Ltd. and the CDC Foundation. He currently chairs the Woodruff Health Sciences Committee and is a senior professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. A past chair of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Rice remains actively engaged in business and civic leadership.

Rice was elected an Emory trustee in 2006. His connection to Oxford College was strengthened through his niece, Lucy Louise Rice 09Ox 12N, whose positive student experience influenced his decision to support Oxford’s Emory Advantage Program. Through the Rice Family Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Rice made a significant gift to the program in late 2009, establishing the Nancy and Charles Rice Endowed Scholarship Fund in honor of his parents, recognizing their commitment to education and memorializing his father, who passed away in 2009.