NAME — Condoleezza Rice
AGE — 46, born November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Ala.
EDUCATION — B.A. in political science, University of Denver, 1974; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1975; Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1981.
EXPERIENCE — Hoover Senior Fellow and professor of political science, Stanford University, 1981-present; provost, Stanford University, 1992-99; director/senior director, Soviet and East European Affairs, National Security Council, 1989-1991; special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1986.
BOOKS — co-author, "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed," 1995; co-author, "The Gorbachev Era," 1986; author, "Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army," 1984.
CORPORATE BOARDS — Chevron Corp., Charles Schwab Corp., the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.
FAMILY — Single, no children.
QUOTE — "American foreign policy in a Republican administration should refocus the United States on the national interest.... There is nothing wrong with doing something that benefits all humanity, but that is, in a sense, a second-order effect," in Foreign Affairs magazine.