Apr 26, 2010 9:36:30 AM

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will give the keynote address at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention this June.

Rice will speak June 24 during NACDA's 45th annual convention at the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim, California.

Rice, who served as the 66th secretary of state from 2005-09, currently serves as a professor of political science and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

In 1981, Rice joined Stanford's faculty as a professor of political science, and from 1993-99, she served as the university's provost. From 1991 to 1993, Rice was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, where she returned after serving as provost until 2001.

Rice has authored and co-authored several books and has served on a number of local and national boards of organizations, foundations and charitable organizations. She currently is a member of the board of trustees of the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rice received both her bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Denver and her master's degree from the University of Notre Dame.