Former US Secretary speaks at NBK event

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) will host former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice this Sunday, as the guest of honor and keynote speaker at the Bank's annual international symposium. In keeping with NBK’s tradition of hosting prominent speakers, the event will afford the Bank's VIP clients and senior public and academic figures a rare opportunity to hear America’s former chief diplomat’s views on the outlook for Iran and Iraq and the strategic, economic and political implications for the Middle East region.
Condoleezza Rice is currently a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.
From January 2005-2009, she served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, prior to which she held the post of National Security Advisor to the President from 2001-2005.
Condoleezza Rice joined the Stanford University faculty as a Professor of Political Science in 1981 and was Stanford University’s Provost from 1993 to 1999. She was a senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1991 to 1993 and returned to the Hoover Institution after serving as Provost unit 2001. As a professor, Rice won two of the highest teaching honors, the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
She currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. In addition, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her PhD. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.