1. Gloria Charmian Duffy was born on September 4,1953 and is a former US Department of Defense official, businesswoman, social entrepreneur and nonprofit executive.
47 Facts About Gloria Duffy
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In February, 2022 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi appointed Duffy to be a member of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.
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Gloria Duffy taught sports to developmentally and intellectually challenged kids at Las Trampas School, through Futures Explored in Lafayette.
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Gloria Duffy graduated from Acalanes High School in 1971, completing a full curriculum of life science courses.
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Gloria Duffy excelled in Spanish, receiving a medal for her proficiency from the National Society of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
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Gloria Duffy was the editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Blueprint.
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Gloria Duffy co-founded, with her classmate Dr Donald Goff, the Lafayette Youth Services Commission, which marked its 50th anniversary in 2021.
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Gloria Duffy was on the college's Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee.
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Gloria Duffy's master's thesis was on the impact of US and Soviet policies in Iran and Iraq in the early 1970s on the two countries' Kurdish populations, completed with support from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, where she was a Humanitarian Policy Studies Fellow in the summer of 1976.
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In 1980, Dr Coit Blacker invited Gloria Duffy to become an Arms Control Fellow at Stanford University's Arms Control Program.
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Gloria Duffy was one of four female fellows Blacker recruited, notable in the largely male international security and arms control field, including Condoleezza Rice, who later became National Security Advisor to President George W Bush and Secretary of State; the late Janne Nolan, and Cynthia Roberts.
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Gloria Duffy has had a varied career, including research, journalism, education, business, management, scientific collaboration and research funding, philanthropy, public service at the local and national levels, defense and arms control policy, international arms negotiations, conflict resolution and real estate management and development.
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From 1977 to 1978, Gloria Duffy was a Resident Consultant at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
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Gloria Duffy authored a study for INFCE of Soviet nuclear exports and non-proliferation policies.
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Gloria Duffy served on the Board of Visitors, renamed the International Advisory Board, of the Freeman Spogli Institute, of which CISAC is a part, at Stanford for 22 years.
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Gloria Duffy reflected on the early history of CISAC, the impact of its work and her colleagues including physicists Dr Sidney Drell and Dr Wolfgang Panofsky, Dr Condoleezza Rice and the other "fellowettes," Dr Blacker, China scholar Dr John Lewis, Secretary of Defense Dr William Perry and others at CISAC at its 25th anniversary commemoration in 2009.
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Gloria Duffy spoke about the impact of the Arms Control Program's founder, and CISAC's first co-director, Dr John Lewis, at a conference commemorating his legacy, held at Stanford in January, 2018.
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In 1982, Duffy become the first executive director of a start-up organisation, Ploughshares Fund, a public foundation initiated in San Francisco by philanthropist Sally Lilienthal, former Nixon Administration official Lewis H Butler and others.
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Gloria Duffy is currently a member of the advisory board.
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From 1984 to 1985, Gloria Duffy worked with Ruth Adams at the MacArthur Foundation in the creation of its International Peace and Security Program.
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Gloria Duffy was in the 1980s and 1990s on the selection committee for the International Peace and Security Program's research and writing grants.
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In 1985, Gloria Duffy founded the independent research institute Global Outlook, based in Palo Alto, California which focused on US-Soviet relations and international security in the nuclear age.
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Gloria Duffy served as deputy assistant secretary of defense, Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction, and secretary of defense representative and deputy head to the safety, security and dismantlement talks, under Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and William Perry and Assistant Secretary Ashton Carter, in the Clinton Administration.
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Gloria Duffy was responsible for negotiating the dismantlement and destruction of weapons of mass destruction in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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Gloria Duffy received the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Public Service in 1995.
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In 1995, while at the Defense Department, Gloria Duffy responded to a request from the White House to fund a newly created organization, the Civilian Research and Development Foundation, providing the initial $5 million for its budget from Defense Department funds, which was then matched by philanthropist George Soros.
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Gloria Duffy was on the board from 1996 to 2009, and chaired the board for ten years, from 1998 until 2008.
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Gloria Duffy began her work on equity and justice by volunteering for Wilson Riles in his campaign for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, while in high school in 1970.
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Gloria Duffy turned the interviews for her academic research into a four-part series of articles for The Occidental Weekly, arguing that the hardline and racist white attitudes she documented would lead to conflict and violence.
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Gloria Duffy was the first board president until 1993, followed by Santa Clara County Municipal Court Judge Jerome Nadler.
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Gloria Duffy has been a mediator and in conflict resolution initiatives including a 1998 effort working, together with Stanford colleagues Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus and Ambassador James Goodby, with the national security advisors to the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to build trust and reduce hostility among the three countries.
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Gloria Duffy has been a trustee, chair of the board, president of the board, director and advisory board member of some two dozen organizations nationally and locally in the Bay Area.
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Gloria Duffy has chaired the board's academic affairs and executive compensation committees, and co-chaired the board's Student Life and Enrollment Management Committee.
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Gloria Duffy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Lafayette United Methodist Church.
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Gloria Duffy has team-taught an arms control course at Stanford University, as well as guest-lectured at various colleges and universities.
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Gloria Duffy oversees The Commonwealth magazine at the Commonwealth Club, and oversaw publication of Each a Mighty Voice: A Century of Speeches from The Commonwealth Club of California, Heyday Books, 2004.
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Gloria Duffy is the author or editor of a number of books and articles.
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Gloria Duffy has published articles in journals in her field such as International Security, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Today and Science Magazine, and contributed chapters to many edited volumes on international security and foreign policy.
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Gloria Duffy writes a regular column, Insight, for The Commonwealth magazine, as well as periodic op-ed pieces for the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, on Medium and for other online and print publications.
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Gloria Duffy periodically writes, speaks, holds public forums and works with public officials on issues of protecting elders from financial and other abuse.
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Gloria Duffy is working to establish more stringent local rules of court for probate in California counties that do not currently require attorneys to justify their fees as benefitting a protected person or their estate.
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Gloria Duffy is on the Attorney Fee Review Team for the Spectrum Institute, which is reviewing flaws and abuses in California's probate system, to make recommendations for reform to the governor and state legislature.
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Gloria Duffy testified in 1987 before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on arms control treaty compliance, and in 1994 before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
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Gloria Duffy speaks and writes about ethics, collaboration, consensus-based decision-making and cooperation.
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Gloria Duffy has been a limited partner in a dozen non-family real estate projects.
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Gloria Duffy played competitive basketball in high school and tennis in high school and college; and swims, hikes, bicycles, skis, kayaks and practices yoga.
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Gloria Duffy has summited Mount Shasta in California and Mount Chirripo in Costa Rica.