콘돌리자 라이스

소개

콘돌리자 라이스(영어: Condoleezza Rice, 문화어: 콘덜리저 라이스, 1954년 11월 14일 ~ )는 미국의 제66대 국무장관(2005~2009)이며, 2005년 1월 26일에 미국 대통령 조지 W. 부시 정부에서 콜린 파월의 뒤를 이어 두 번째 국무장관을 지냈다. 매들린 올브라이트에 이어 두 번째의 여성 국무장관이자, 아프리카계 미국인 여성으로서는 처음이었다.

Condoleezza "Condi" Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has served as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A member of the Republican Party, Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch. At the time of her appointment as Secretary of State, Rice was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States to be in the presidential line of succession.