Michael D. Rich
Executive Vice President, RAND Corporation
Michael Rich is Executive Vice President of the RAND Corporation, the institution's second-ranking position. He has held this position since January 1993. He is also co-chair of the Board of Overseers of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute with Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Nasser Al-Misnad.
Mr. Rich was formerly Vice President in charge of RAND's National Security Research Division and Director of the National Defense Research Institute, the federally funded research and development center that provides research and policy analysis to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Department of State. He was also responsible for national security studies sponsored at RAND by the intelligence community, Department of Energy, and private foundations. He has published numerous classified and unclassified RAND reports, including studies of the B-2 acquisition strategy, trends in weapons acquisition, multinational coproduction of aerospace systems, various readiness issues, and other topics related to national defense.
Before becoming Vice President, he served at RAND as Deputy Vice President, Director of the Defense Resource Management Program, and Associate Head of the Political Science Department. He has been a member of and chairs the Admissions Committee of the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Mr. Rich is Chairman of the Board, International Institute for Strategic Studies-U.S. and Chairman of the Board of The Communications Institute. He is a member of the California Bar; the Board of Directors of the Council for Aid to Education (chairman, 1996-2005); the Council on Foreign Relations; the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors; the Board of Directors of WISE & Health Aging; the Blue Ribbon Committee of the WISE/Los Angeles Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; the UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors; and the Advisory Board of the Everychild Foundation. He chaired the Financial Oversight Committee of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District from 2000-2003, and was a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, from 2001-2007.
Mr. Rich received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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