Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor,
on January 22,
2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six 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. She resides in Washington, D.C.
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