Condoleezza Rice Announced As The Director For Stanford’s Hoover Institution
Condoleezza Rice, who’s the former State of Secretary for the U.S., and the current Denning Professor in Global Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been announced as the next director for Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as announced by Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Rice also currently holds the position of Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution.
Speaking about Condoleezza Rice’s appointment as the director, Marc Tessier-Lavigne said:
“We are very fortunate to have Condoleezza Rice assume the helm of the Hoover Institution. Her accomplishments as a scholar, strategic thinker, and public servant and her deep commitment to Hoover make her the ideal leader for defining the next chapter in Hoover’s long and distinguished history. She is also an exceptional teacher and is strongly committed to Stanford, having served as the university’s provost for six years and a member of our faculty since 1981. I and many other leaders at Stanford have greatly valued her wisdom and counsel and look forward to welcoming her to our executive leadership team.”
Condoleezza Rice: The New Director of the Hoover Institution
Holding an undergraduate and a postgraduate degree in political science from the University of Denver and the University of Notre Dame respectively, Rice later received her Ph.D in Political Science from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Prior to her political career, Condoleezza Rice was an assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University from 1981 to 1987, and then an associate professor till 1993.
Rice was the 66th secretary of state of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. She also served as President George W. Bush’s national security advisor. During her time at Stanford, she won two awards: the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Talking about her appointment as the director, Condoleezza Rice said:
“I’m honored to be named as Hoover’s next director. Both the Hoover Institution and Stanford University are places that believe in the study and creation of ideas that define a free society. The nurturing of these ideas, the value of free inquiry and the preservation of open dialogue are the backbone of democracy. It will be a privilege to lead the institution as it moves into its second century and to work with the outstanding fellows who seek dynamic solutions to the incredible challenges on the horizon.”
The Hoover Institute?
Established in 1919, the Hoover Institute, or the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is an an American public policy think tank and research institution dedicated to “promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind”.
The Hoover Institution was started off as a library by Herbert Hooper, a Stanford graduate who would serve as the 31st President of the United States. The libraries now feature materials from both the First World War and Second World War, including the collection of documents of President Hoover, which he began to collect at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The library is also home to thousands of Persian books, official documents, letters, multimedia pieces and other materials on Iran’s history, politics and culture.
Some of the notable fellows at the Hoover Institution include Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, George Pratt Schultz, the former U.S. Secretary of State, Raghuram Rajan, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and many more.
