Douglas Shontz

Biography

Douglas Shontz is a social scientist at the RAND Corporation. With a background as an attorney and an engineer, his research focuses on national security, foreign policy, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), usually with a technical and/or interagency component. Specific areas of study include strategic planning, nuclear proliferation, and government decisionmaking. He also volunteers as an arbitrator and mediator for homeowner disputes in the Washington, D.C., area.

Prior to RAND, Shontz advised the U.S. Department of Defense's treaty manager on implementation of and compliance with nuclear and chemical arms control agreements and was part of U.S. delegations to international meetings. He has also previously researched federal mediation and ADR programs and worked on federal hazardous waste clean-up projects.

Shontz earned his B.S.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Indiana University.