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William J. Perry Ashton B. Carter John M. Deutch Robert Hermann Paul G. Kaminski John P. Stenbit John P. White George M. Whitesides Herbert S. Winokur	William J. Perry William J. Perry is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies and the School of Engineering. As a Senior Fellow at FSI, Dr. Perry serves as co-director with Ashton B. Carter of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard Universities. From February 1994 to January 1997, Dr. Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense for the United States. He also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1993-1994 and as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 1977-1981. He is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, national security and arms control, and was the co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) from 1988 to 1993, during which time he was also a professor at Stanford University. His additional business experiences include serving as a laboratory director for General Telephone and Electronics (1954-1964); Founder and President of ESL Inc. (1964-1977); Executive Vice-President of Hambrecht & Quist Inc. (1981-1985); and Founder and Chairman of Technology Strategies & Alliances (1985-1993). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is on the Board of Directors of several emerging high-tech companies. Dr. Perry's experience extends to the military where from 1946 to 1947 he was an enlisted man in the Army Corps of Engineers and served in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1948 and was a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves from 1950 to 1955. Dr. Perry has also received a number of awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1997), the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1980 and 1981), and Outstanding Civilian Service Medals from the Army (1962 and 1997), the Air Force (1997), the Navy (1997), the Defense Intelligence Agency (1977 and 1997), NASA (1981) and the Coast Guard (1997). He received the American Electronic Association's Medal of Achievement (1980), the Eisenhower Award (1996), the Marshall Award (1997), the Forrestal Medal (1994), and the Henry Stimson Medal (1994). The National Academy of Engineering selected him for the Arthur Bueche Medal in 1996. He has received awards from the enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, and the Air Force. He has received decorations from the governments of Albania, Bahrain, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Poland, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Perry has a BS and MS from Stanford University and a PhD from Penn State, all in mathematics.