Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. Secretary of State & Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of Liberia
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of Liberia, and Condoleezza Rice, Former U.S. Secretary of State, were interviewed by Prof. Ken Shotts, Professor of Political Economy, for the Stanford GSB's Business and Society Lecture Series. During the interview, President Sirleaf and Dr. Rice discussed governments' response to the current pandemic and its current and future impact on international relations. President Sirleaf was president of Liberia (2006–18) after the country’s devastating years of conflict and during the Ebola crisis. She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country. Johnson Sirleaf was one of three recipients, along with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karmān, of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to further women’s rights. Dr. Rice served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position. Rice is 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.
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