Terrence K. Kelly

Biography

Terrence Kelly is the director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program at the RAND Arroyo Center and has been a senior operations researcher at RAND for over ten years. Over the past decade at RAND he has worked on counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan; DoD and Army strategy; and science, technology, and acquisition problems. In 2006 and 2007 Kelly served as director of the Joint Strategic Planning and Assessment Office in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and in 2004 as the director of Militia Transition and Reintegration for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Prior to joining RAND in March 2002, Kelly served for 20 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.

Prior to retiring from the Army, Kelly's positions included senior national security officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; chief of staff of the National Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office; legislative liaison officer in the Army's office of legislative affairs; White House Fellow; assistant professor in West Point's System Engineering Department and RPI's Mathematical Sciences Department (visiting); command and staff positions in the 82nd Airborne Division and the 8th Infantry Division, and as a staff officer on the Army Staff.

Kelly holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and an M.S. in computer and systems engineering from RPI, an M.A. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, and is a 1982 West Point graduate.