Primary Job Title Professor Primary Organization Stanford University School of Medicine
Gender Male
William Perry is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, national security, and arms control. He is a professor (emeritus) at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Foreign Service Institute (FSI). He serves as Co-Director of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and the Preventive Defense Project. Perry was the Co-Director of CISAC, during which
time he was also a professor at Stanford University. He was also a part-time lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Santa Clara University.
Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense for the United States from 1994 to 1997. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and as Under Secretary of Defense for research and engineering. Dr. Perry currently serves on the Defense Policy Board and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. He is on the Board of Directors of CoVant, Fabrinet, LGS Bell Labs Innovations, and several emerging high-tech companies.
In business, he served as a Laboratory Director for General Telephone and Electronics; Founder and President of ESL Inc.; Executive Vice President of Hambrecht & Quist Inc.; and Founder and Chairman of Technology Strategies & Alliances. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Perry received a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Stanford University and a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, all in mathematics.
