Former Secretary of State
(2005-2009) Condoleezza Rice will be speaking in Lincoln via simulcast May 10, 2013.
Condoleezza Rice is currently the Denning Professor in
Global Business and the Economy at the Graduate School of Business; the Thomas
and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution
and a professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a
founding partner of Rice Hadley Gates LLC. From January 2005-2009, Rice served
as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first
African American woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George
W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National
Security Advisor) from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political
science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver; her
master’s from the University of Notre Dame and her Ph.D. from the Graduate
School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
Condoleezza Rice will be speaking with 8 other national speakers including: Dr. Henry Cloud, Mike Krzyzewsk,
David Allen, Jack Welch, Andy Stanley, Rourke Denver, Sanya
Richards-Ross, and John C. Maxwell.
