Dr. Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State
Dr. Rice became
Secretary of State on January 26, 2005. Prior to
this, she was the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs, commonly referred to
as the National Security Advisor, since January
2001.
In June 1999, she completed a
6-year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost,
during which she was the institution's chief
budget and academic officer. As Provost she was
responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and
the academic program involving 1,400 faculty
members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political
science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford
faculty since 1981 and has won two of the
highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J.
Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the
1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's
Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At
Stanford, she has been a member of the Center
for International Security and Arms Control, a
Senior Fellow of the Institute for International
Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the
Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany
Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with
Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with
Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The
Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984).
She also has written numerous articles on Soviet
and East European foreign and defense policy,
and has addressed audiences in settings ranging
from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow
to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000
Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991,
the period of German reunification and the final
days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush
Administration as Director, and then Senior
Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in
the National Security Council, and a Special
Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs
fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she
served as Special Assistant to the Director of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served
on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender --
Integrated Training in the Military.
She
was a member of the boards of directors for the
Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab
Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the
International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan
and the San Francisco Symphony Board of
Governors. She was a Founding Board member of
the Center for a New Generation, an educational
support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and
East Menlo Park, California and was Vice
President of the Boys and Girls Club of the
Peninsula. In addition, her past board service
has encompassed such organizations as
Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the
Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the
National Council for Soviet and East European
Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and
KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954, in
Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's
degree in political science, cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in
1974; her master's from the University of Notre
Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate
School of International Studies at the
University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
has been awarded honorary doctorates from
Morehouse College in 1991, the University of
Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in
1995, the National Defense University in 2002,
the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003,
the University of Louisville and Michigan
State University in 2004, and Boston College in
2006. She resides in Washington, DC.
Source: US
State Department
Released: Jan. 26, 2005
As of March, 2006
