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Condoleezza Rice to speak at DePauw Oct. 8
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who The New York Times called “one of the country’s most distinguished and widely respected diplomats,” will come to DePauw University on Tuesday, Oct. 8 to deliver an Ubben Lecture.
Details of the event - including the time and venue - will be issued at a later date. Like all Ubben Lectures, the event is presented free of admission and is open to all. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis, and no tickets will be distributed.
From January 2005 through 2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State, only the second woman, and the first African American woman, to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 2001 through 2005, the first woman to do so.
Previous to that, Rice served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff from 1989 through March 1991, and was also senior director of Soviet and East European Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rice also served as special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Rice then served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999, during which she was the university’s chief budget and academic officer. As provost, she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and an academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students. In 1997, she also served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender.
Rice has appeared four times on Time’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, one of only nine people in the world to have made the list this frequently.
She has also authored and co-authored numerous books, including three bestsellers, “Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom” (2017); “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington” (2011); and “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family” (2010). She also wrote “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).
Rice is currently the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford 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 RiceHadleyGates, LLC, an international strategic consulting firm based in Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. Rice currently serves on the boards of Dropbox, C3, an energy software company and Makena Capital, a private endowment firm. In addition, Rice is vice-chair of the board of governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, a member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education and a trustee of the Aspen Institute.
Born in Birmingham, Ala., Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver. She earned 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. Rice is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates. She currently resides in Stanford, Calif.
Established in 1986 through the generous support of 1958 DePauw graduates Timothy and Sharon Ubben, the Ubben Lecture Series was designed to “bring the world to Greencastle.” The series has hosted 113 speakers over the past 32 years.
To view a complete roster of Ubben Lecturers -- which includes links to video clips and news stories -- click here. Video montages of many previous Ubben Lectures are also available on YouTube.