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Condoleezza Rice is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where she has served on the faculty since 1981. 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 degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1975, and her Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. Rice served as Stanford University's provost from 1993 to 1999, functioning as the institution's chief budget and academic officer during that period. Currently, she holds multiple prestigious positions, including the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, and Senior Fellow by courtesy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She has also been recognized with two of Stanford's highest teaching honors: the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1984 and the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1993.
In her distinguished career, Rice served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 2001 to 2005, the first woman to hold the position, and as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States from 2005 to 2009, the second woman and first Black woman in that role. Previously, from 1989 to 1991, she was Director and then Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. Rice has authored and co-authored numerous books, including Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983 (1984), The Gorbachev Era (edited with Alexander Dallin, 1986), Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (with Philip Zelikow, 1995), Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010), No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011), Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (2017), Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (with Amy B. Zegart, 2018), and To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth (with Philip Zelikow, 2019). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received over fifteen honorary doctorates. Rice is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm.
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