Biography

Dr. Terrence Kelly is a Senior Researcher with the RAND Corporation, where his primary research areas are national and homeland security policy. From February 2006 to April 2007, he served as the Director of the Joint Strategic Planning and Assessment Office for the U.S. Mission in Baghdad. In 2004, he was the Director for Militia Transition and Reintegration Programs for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He served as the Senior National Security Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, held many Army field and staff positions, was a White House Fellow and served as the Chief of Staff of the National Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office. He has held faculty positions in West Point's System Engineering Department and the Mathematical Sciences Department (visiting) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering, and as an Adjunct Professor of Security Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Public Policy and Management. He is a 1982 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds a Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.