Giselle Donnelly

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Giselle Donnelly
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Thomas Donnelly

(1953-06-13) June 13, 1953 (age 71)
Known forPublic policy research

Giselle Donnelly (born Thomas Donnelly; June 13, 1953) is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). [1] Donnelly is a writer, an analyst of military affairs and defense, national security and foreign policy and the author of AEI's National Security Outlook. She has been a director at the Lockheed Martin Corporation on strategic communications and initiatives since 2002. She was deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) from 1999 to 2002. [2]

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She is now a resident fellow and co-director with Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute's Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies launched in 2012.

Career

Donnelly was educated at Sidwell Friends School. She received her M.I.P.P. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Ithaca College.

She began her career as a journalist at her family's Journal newspapers in the Washington, D.C. area in 1978. Two years later she began working at Army Times. In 1985, she helped to launch Defense News and became its Deputy Editor (1984–1987). She returned to Army Times and served as editor from 1987 to 1993. During her tenure she redesigned the paper and oversaw writing on Operation Just Cause in Panama, the First Gulf War, and the mission to Somalia. She became executive editor of The National Interest on 1994 and remained for one year.

In 1995 she moved on to become a professional staff member at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services). She was appointed director of the Policy Group of the Committee, a post which she held from 1996 to 1999. She was the principal author of Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century published by PNAC in September 2000.

Donnelly had begun transitioning before publicly living as a trans woman in October 2018, taking the name Giselle. [3] [4]

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References

  1. "Giselle Donnelly". American Enterprise Institute . Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  2. Robert Scheer (2008). "ch. 12; The Humbling of Pax Americana". The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America. Grand Central Publishing. pp. 121, 122. ISBN   9780446537445.
  3. Rogin, Josh (12 October 2018). "Giselle Donnelly can finally be herself". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  4. Gualtieri, Allison Elyse (13 October 2018). "Conservative think tanker comes out as a woman, shares love of 'wine, gender fluidity and BDSM' with new wife". Washington Examiner . Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.