Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will deliver the 2007 Issam M. Fares Lecture at Tufts, the Office of Public Relations told the Daily on Friday.
Albright will make her address at 4:30 p.m. on March 7 in the Gantcher Center.
The last Fares lecture took place in November 2004 and was delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Albright served as the 64th Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton and was the first female to hold the position.
Before her appointment, she served as the United States' Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.
After ascending to such high-ranking positions, she heavily influenced Clinton's policy in the Middle East and the Balkans.
More recently, Albright has been an outspoken critic of President George W. Bush's foreign policy. She delivered the commencement address at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2002, at which time she accused the Bush foreign policy team of suffering from "untreated bipolar disorder" on some issues, according to Agence France Presse.
A native of what is now the Czech Republic, Albright earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1959. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1968 and 1976, respectively.
She currently holds a distinguished professorship at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York Stock Exchange and as a principal in the global strategy firm The Albright Group, LLC.
According to a press release issued by the Office of Public Relations, the Fares Lecture Series has as its goal the promotion of Middle Eastern Studies and is "supported by an endowment from the Fares Foundation."
Past speakers have included former U.S. presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and former Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher.
