Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

A conversation with:

Dr. Condoleezza Rice
66th U.S. Secretary of State
Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow in Public Policy, Hoover Institution

and

Dr. Amy Zegart
Davies Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford Universit

Moderated by
Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Kenney Auditorium, Paul H. Nitze Building
1740 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20036

This event is off the record

A limited number of signed books will be available for purchase after the event.

Dr. Condoleezza 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.

From January 2005 to 2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 to 2005, the first woman to hold the position.

She has authored and coauthored 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).

Dr. Amy Zegart is the Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, professor of political science (by courtesy), and co-director at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). She directs the Cyber Policy Program and is a contributing editor to The Atlantic.

Before coming to Stanford in 2011, Zegart served as professor of public policy at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research examines U.S. intelligence challenges, cyber security, grand strategy, and American foreign policy. She has authored several books, including Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC, which won the highest national dissertation award in political science, and Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11, which won the National Academy of Public Administration’s Brownlow Book Award. Her most recent book is Eyes on Spies: Congress and the United States Intelligence Community.

Zegart was featured by the National Journal as one of the ten most influential experts in intelligence reform. She served on the Clinton administration's National Security Council staff and as a foreign policy adviser to the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign. From 2009 to 2011 she served on the National Academies of Science Panel to Improve Intelligence Analysis. She served on the FBI Intelligence Analysts Association National Advisory Board and the Los Angeles Police Department’s Counter-terrorism and Community Police Advisory Board. She also served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations