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Brian Healy
News Editor
The crowd of nearly 500 buzzed with eager anticipation as 6:30 p.m. drew closer. Alumni, faculty, students and members of the USF community gathered on Thursday, Jan. 26 to hear from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice, meanwhile, went unnoticed, standing in the lobby of the McLaren Center with her bodyguard, awaiting her cue from USF president Rev. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J.
Rice first served as George W. Bush’s foreign policy advisor, being promoted to Secretary of State after her predecessor, Colin Powell, resigned at the end of Bush’s first term. She is only the second woman and first African-American woman to hold the position of Secretary of State.
The responsibility of asking questions fell on USF alumnus Jeff Silk ’87, who quizzed Rice with questions pooled together from a survey of the members of the audience.
In October, the School of Management announced that Silk and his wife Naomi would pledge a “t
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Yuriko Koike
Governor of Tokyo since 2016
Yuriko Koike (小池 百合子, Koike Yuriko; born 15 July 1952) is a Japanese politician, who has served as the Governor of Tokyo since 2016. Previously, she was also served as a member of the House of Councillors from 1992 to 1993, a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2016, Minister of the Environment under from 2003 to 2006, and Minister of Defense in between July and August 2007.
Born and raised in Ashiya, a wealthy, small, and popular city near Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture, Koike graduated from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt in 1976, and served as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan from 1993 until 2016, when she resigned to run for Governor of Tokyo. Previously, she also served as the Minister of the Environment under Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet from 2003 to 2006 and briefly as Minister of Defense under the first cabinet of Shinzo Abe in between July and August 2007.[1]
Koike was elected Governor o
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Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa
Prime Minister of Samoa since 2021
AfiogaFiamē Naomi Mataʻafa (pronounced[afɪoŋafɪameːnaomɪmataʔafa]; born 29 April 1957)[1] is a Samoan politician and High Chief (matai) who has served as the seventh Prime Minister of Samoa since 2021.[2][3]
The daughter of Samoa's first Prime Minister Fiamē Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II, Mata'afa is the first woman to serve as Samoa's Head of Government and the first to not be a member of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) since 1982. A member of the HRPP until 2020, she was the first woman appointed to Cabinet in Samoa's history. Mata'afa was the Minister of Education from 1991 to 2006 in the governments of Prime Ministers Tofilau Eti Alesana and Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi. In addition, she was the Minister of Women from 2006 to 2011 and Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2016. Mata'afa served as Samoa's first female Deputy Prime Minister and deputy leader of the HR