Gloria Duffy

Gloria Charmian Duffy (b. September 4, 1953) is a former US defense official and a non-profit executive. Currently she is the President and CEO of the Commonwealth Club of California, the oldest and largest public affairs forum in the United States.

She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, under Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and William Perry, in the Clinton Administration, and was responsible for negotiating the dismantlement and destruction of weapons of mass destruction in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. She received the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Public Service in 1995.

Dr. Duffy is a Past Chair, and current member, of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation in Arlington, Virginia as well as serving on the Board of Directors of the Ploughshares Fund. She serves on the Boards of Trustees of Occidental College, and Dominican University of California, and on the International Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

She holds a doctorate in Political Science from Columbia University, and an A.B. from Occidental College. She is the author or editor of a number of books and articles (Blacker and Duffy, International Arms Control Issues and Agreements, Stanford University Press, 1984), and writes a monthly column, "InSight", for "The Commonwealth" magazine.