Stuart E. Johnson

Biography

Stuart E. Johnson is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he directs studies that focus on national security strategy and the forces and resources needed to implement the strategy. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

From 2002 to 2007, Johnson served as director of research in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at National Defense University (NDU), where he directed a program analyzing the future U.S. national security environment and how to translate that into choices for defense policy and planning. From 1997 to 2002, Johnson directed the International Security and Defense Policy Center within the RAND National Defense Research Institute. He managed a program that performed in-depth research on critical issues in defense, international security, and critical infrastructure protection. He also managed a program of analytic support to Central European Ministries of Defense to prepare them for NATO membership.

Prior to joining RAND, he was director of research at NDU's Institute for National Strategic Studies. He planned and executed a program of study in support of senior decisionmakers in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Joint Staff. He also served as director of systems analysis at NATO Headquarters, directing a multinational staff of analysts to develop requirements for the forces of NATO nations, and as principal European/NATO analyst in OSD, Program Analysis and Evaluation.

Johnson was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 2006. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.