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

CONDOLEEZZA RICE

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.

Rice will discuss her book “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington” at 7 p.m. in Tudor Fieldhouse. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

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.

Rice 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).

Students, faculty and staff with a Rice ID are entitled to one ticket, which will be required for entry to the event. To pick up your ticket, bring your Rice ID to James A. Baker III Hall, Suite 120, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

The doors at Tudor Fieldhouse will open at 6:15 p.m. for the event. Seats will not be guaranteed after 6:45 p.m. and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

After the talk, Rice will sign books, which will be for sale at the event. The following conditions strictly enforced:

Rice’s talk will be webcast at http://bakerinstitute.org/events/no-higher-honor-a-memoir-of-my-years-in-washington.