Jennifer D. P. Moroney

Biography

Jennifer D. P. Moroney is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Moroney is leading studies that focus on U.S. government security cooperation and building partnership capacity, assessing the effectiveness of building partnership programs and activities, and foreign predeployment training models and practices. She formerly served as associate director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program within RAND Project AIR FORCE. Prior to joining RAND, Moroney worked for DFI Government Services, where she managed regional security studies for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Her recent RAND monographs include (as lead author) Developing an Assessment Framework for U.S. Air Force Building Partnerships Programs (2010); A Framework to Assess Programs for Building Partnerships (2009); Building Partner Capacity to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (2009); International Cooperation with Partner Air Forces (2009); and A Capabilities-Based Strategy for Army Security Cooperation (2007). Moroney has also served as coeditor on Security Dynamics in the Former Soviet Bloc (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Praeger Publishers, 2002).

She was a NATO Fellow from 1999 to 2001, a short-term scholar at the Kennan Institute in 1999, and a Rotary International scholar from 1997 to 1998. She has held adjunct teaching positions at The George Washington University and the University of Kent and is currently a research associate in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.

Moroney received her M.A. in European integration from the University of Limerick and her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Kent.