48th Annual Pepperdine Associates Dinner
Keynote Speaker
CONDOLEEZZA RICE
Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC.
Rice served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States, the second woman and the first Black woman to hold the post. Rice also served as president George W. Bush’s national security advisor from January 2001 to January 2005, also the first woman to hold the position. From February 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on president George H. W. Bush’s National Security Council staff.
Rice served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999 and has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981. She has won two of the university’s highest teaching honors. She is the author of three New York Times best-sellers and in 2022 became a part owner of the Denver Broncos as a part of the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group.