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CONDOLEEZZA RICE
Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist, diplomat,
civil servant, and professor. She served as the 66th United States
Secretary of State.
In 1993, Rice became the first woman and first African American
to serve as provost of Stanford University, a post she held for six
years. During that time, she also served as the university’s chief
budget and academic officer.
In 200, Rice was appointed national security adviser by President
George W. Bush, becoming the first black woman (and second
woman) to hold the post. She went on to become the first black
woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State in 2004, following Colin
Powell’s resignation, and served from January 2005 to 2009.
As Secretary of State, Rice dedicated her department to
“Transformational Diplomacy,” with a mission of building and
sustaining democratic, well-governed states around the world and
the Middle East in particular. To that end, she relocated American
diplomats to such hardship locations as Iraq, Afghanistan and Angola,
and required them to become fluent in two foreign languages. She
also created a high-level position to de-fragment U.S. foreign aid.
In March 2009, Rice returned to Stanford University as a political
science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior
Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. In September 2010,
she became a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of
Business and a director of its Global Center for Business and the
Economy. She is currently the Denning Professor in Global Business
and the Economy.
Rice speaks five languages fluently, she is an accomplished concert
pianist, has a reputation as a shopaholic and reportedly loves
expensive designer clothes by Armani and Oscar de la Renta.
Sources: biography.com/people/condoleezza-rice-9456857?page=1 and
gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/condoleezza-rice
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