Stanley A. Weiss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American business executive and writer
Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1926
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Stanley A. Weiss
- Stanley A.
- Weiss is an American business executive, founder of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a writer on international affairs.
- He has been described as a “self-made man” and a “multi-faceted .
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- multi-movied bon vivant.”[i] Inspired by the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre to search for gold in Mexico in the 1950s, Weiss became a successful entrepreneur in the mining industry before turning to civic engagement as co-founder of the Citizen's Party and founder of BENS. Under Weiss, BENS successfully advocated closing unnecessary U.S.
- military bases, reforming Pentagon procurement, passing the Chemical Weapons Convention, and catalyzing President Clinton's historic 2000 visit to India, among other priorities.
- Former U.S.
- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has cited BENS as a “cutting-edge example as to what can be done when the business community becomes involved in supporting our diplomatic and development efforts,” and former U.S.
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted “BENS has identified problems and proposed solutions that have saved the taxpayers billions of dollars and made our military a more effective fighting force.”[ii][iii] Weiss started writing on national security issues in 1983 and has continued to write regularly on a wide range of foreign and domestic issues, including for the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Strategic Affairs.
- He currently writes on international affairs for the Huffington Post. His memoir, Being Dead is Bad for Business, was published by Disruption Books in February 2017.
- He recounts how his “zest for living has taken him from the company of legendary artists and poets in Mexico, to writers and beatniks in 1960s San Francisco and Hollywood; from drunken nights with a notorious spy to friendships with three of the men who played James Bond; from glamorous parties in Gstaad and Phuket to power politics in London and Washington, DC.”
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