Biography

Andrew Morral is Director of the RAND Homeland Security Program 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. As Director of the Homeland Security Program, Dr. Morral manages a wide range of clients and projects concerning emergency preparedness, terrorism risk management, domestic intelligence, threat assessment, and radicalization.Dr. Morral's areas of expertise include modeling, simulation, and performance measurement. Within RAND's Terrorism Risk Management Center he 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 survey response accuracy, and he developed 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.