Rice to deliver speech at Duke

Condoleezza Rice, former U.S Secretary of State, will deliver the Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture in Page Auditorium April 10.

Rice served as the 66th secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 under the Bush administration. She was the second woman and the first black woman to serve as secretary of state.

The lecture is sponsored by the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy and co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, the Duke Office of Global Strategy and Programs and the Alexander Hamilton Society, the University announced Tuesday.

Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy and director of the American Grand Strategy program, said Rice’s many important governmental positions makes her perspective very relevant. Feaver, who served as a special adviser on the National Security Council staff under former President George W. Bush, will host the discussion.

“Condoleezza Rice has served at the highest levels of government during some of the most important periods in American foreign policy: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the 9/11 attacks, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Feaver said in a news release Tuesday.

Rice, who has authored and co-authored many books, currently serves as the Denning professor in Global Business and the Economy at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. She is also a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson senior fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy analysis group at Stanford.