Mansfield Lecture Featuring Condoleezza Rice & Michael McFaul

32 Campus Drive,Missoula MT 59812

18 April, 2022

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Fostering Freedom At Home & Abroad "We are safest, most secure, and most prosperous when our values and our interests are inextricably linked." – Condoleezza Rice Join two American patriots in a conversation on the hard work of creating and sustaining democracy, with topics ranging from the importance of engaging rural America to Russian aggression in Ukraine. Moderated by UM President Seth Bodnar. Secretary Condoleezza Rice is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm. She served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first black 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 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position. From 1989-1991, Secretary Rice served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. She served as Director, then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs, as well as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Secretary Rice earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver; her master’s in the same subject from the University of Notre Dame; and her PhD in political science from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Ambassador Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He was the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University in 2015. He is an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post. Ambassador McFaul served in the Obama administration, as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). Ambassador McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University. He completed his D. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University. President Seth Bodnar currently serves as the 19th president of the University of Montana. President Bodnar was a senior executive at the General Electric Company, serving as its first-ever Chief Digital Officer and leading GE Transportation’s Digital Solutions business. Prior to GE, he served on faculty at West Point where he taught economics. President Bodnar graduated first in his class from West Point, received both the Rhodes and Truman scholarships, and earned two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford. President Bodnar had a distinguished military career, serving in the 101st Airborne Division and the U.S. Army’s First Special Forces Group. As a member of the Army’s elite Green Berets, he commanded a Special Forces detachment on multiple deployments around the world and later served as a special assistant to the Commanding General in Iraq. President Bodnar is the son of two educators and the husband of a fifth-generation Montanan.