David G. Groves

Biography

David Groves is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in the development and use of exploratory modeling and robust decisionmaking methods for long-term policy analysis. For the past several years, he has worked to apply these tools to water resource planning as a lead researcher in RAND's National Science Foundation–funded project on decisionmaking under uncertainty. He has worked closely with several water agencies in Southern California and the California Department of Water Resources to help them address climate change in their long-term planning. His analysis was used as the basis of several workshops to explore approaches for presenting climate uncertainty to water resource managers and local officials. In 2007, Groves received RAND's Silver Medal Award for his work on Enhancing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering's Risk-Informed Decision Framework for identifying a comprehensive hurricane protection and restoration strategy for Coastal Louisiana. In 2009, he received a Gold Medal Award for his work on water management policy. Groves received his Ph.D. in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.