Biography

Andrew Morral is Director of the RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center and a Senior Behavioral Scientist. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology (Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, NYC) in 1992, and joined RAND in 1997, where he has held senior leadership positions for the last eight years. These positions include Director of the RAND Safety and Justice Program, between 2004 and 2007. Dr. Morral's areas of expertise include program evaluation, performance measurement and modeling and simulation. He has developed strategies for evaluating the deterrent benefits attributable to counterterrorism security systems, and has developed simulation methods for establishing robust estimates of the distribution of U.S. urban area's terrorism risk. He has developed innovative modeling techniques for examining drug use epidemiology, and produced causal modeling software that is now in wide distribution. As a program evaluator, Dr. Morral has led large national and multisite evaluations of substance abuse and delinquency programs for adolescents. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed reports in leading scientific and policy journals. Dr. Morral serves the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Department of Homeland Security's Center on Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE), a Center of Excellence at the University of Southern California.