Gloria Duffy Biography

Gloria Duffy is President and CEO of The Commonwealth Club of California.
Gloria Duffy previously served as US Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Her mission was to convince the countries of the former Soviet Union to give up their weapons of mass destruction and to prevent the spread of their nuclear chemical and biological weapons and material.
In years prior she was the first Executive Director of Ploughshares Fund a public charitable grant making foundation in San Francisco; Assistant Director of the Arms Control Association a public interest group in Washington DC; editor of Arms Control Today and a resident consultant at the RAND Corporation.
A San Francisco native Dr. Duffy holds M.A. M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Columbia University in New York and an A.B. magna cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Gloria has also worked with the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago and been a member of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation since 1980.

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