Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to speak at Rice University Nov. 8

10/26/2011

Franz Brotzen
713-348-6775
franz.brotzen@rice.edu

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak at Rice University Nov. 8 about her experiences in the administration of President George W. Bush

Who: Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. secretary of state and former national security adviser.

What: Lecture on “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington.” A book signing will follow.

When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Where: Rice University’s Tudor Fieldhouse, 6100 Main St.

From 2005 until 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 assistant to the president for National Security Affairs (national security adviser) from 2001 until 2005, the first woman to hold the position.

Rice is currently a professor of political economy in 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 The Rice Hadley Group.

She has authored and co-authored numerous books, including “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family” (2010), “Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft” (1995) with Philip Zelikow, “The Gorbachev Era” (1986) with Alexander Dallin and “Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army” (1984).

The event is by invitation only but open to members of the news media. It will be webcast at http://bakerinstitute.org/events/no-higher-honor-a-memoir-of-my-years-in-washington.

Members of the news media who want to attend should RSVP to Franz Brotzen at franz.brotzen@rice.edu or 713-348-6775. There will be a media check-in table at this event.