Biography

As Executive Vice President, Michael Rich has been the institution's second-ranking officer since 1993. He also serves as cochair of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute with Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned. Rich was formerly vice president and director of the RAND National Security Research Division and director of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, the federally funded research and development center that provides research and policy analysis to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the defense agencies, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Navy. He was also responsible for national security studies sponsored at RAND by the intelligence community, Department of Energy, and private foundations. He has published numerous classified and unclassified RAND reports, including studies of the B-2 acquisition strategy, trends in weapons acquisition, multinational coproduction of aerospace systems, various readiness issues, and other topics related to national defense. He previously served at RAND as Deputy Vice President, Director of the Defense Resource Management Program.Michael is chairman of the board of the International Institute of Strategic Studies-U.S.

Biography

Rich has been executive vice president since January 1993. He was formerly vice president of the RAND National Security Research Division and director of the National Defense Research Institute, the federally funded research and development center that provides research and policy analysis to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Department of State. He was also responsible for national security studies sponsored at RAND by the Intelligence Community, Department of Energy, and private foundations. He has published numerous classified and unclassified RAND reports, including studies of the B-2 acquisition strategy, trends in weapons acquisition, multinational coproduction of aerospace systems, various readiness issues, and other topics related to national defense.

Before becoming vice president, he served at RAND as deputy vice president and director of the Defense Resource Management Program and as associate head of the Political Science Department. He has been a member of and chairs the Admissions Committee of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Rich chairs the International Institute for Strategic Studies–U.S. and chaired The Communications Institute from 2004 to 2009. He is a member of the California Bar; the board of directors of the Council for Aid to Education (chairman, 1996–2005) the Council on Foreign Relations; the Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors; the board of directors of WISE & Health Aging; the Blue Ribbon Committee of the WISE/Los Angeles Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; the UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors; and the advisory board of the Everychild Foundation. He chaired the Financial Oversight Committee of the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District from 2000 to 2003, and was a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, from 2001 to 2007.