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Sally SleeperNew Orleans Office Director of Programs, RAND Gulf States Policy Institute EducationPh.D. in organization science and economics, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S. in policy analysis and public management, Stony Brook University, State University of New York; B.A. in environmental design and planning, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Biography
Sleeper is the director of research programs at the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute in New Orleans. Her responsibilities include collaborating with RAND business units and RAND Gulf States university partners on project development in the Gulf region. She joined RAND in 2000 as a management scientist at RAND in Pittsburgh, where she specialized in the following areas: innovation and technology development; regional economic development, including development of frameworks to evaluate issues of governance, consolidation, and cooperation and economic effectiveness, and benchmarks and metrics for analyses and comparisons; science and technology policy; organizational effectiveness; and decision making. Prior to joining RAND, Sleeper was a private sector transportation management analyst. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in organization science and economics from Carnegie Mellon University, her M.S. in policy analysis and public management from SUNY Stony Brook, and her B.A. in environmental design and planning from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Research Focus
Technology, information, and innovation; logistics; public and private organization management
RAND Research Areas
Education; Energy and Environment; National Security; Transportation and Infrastructure
Biography
Sally Sleeper is the director of research programs at the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute in New Orleans. Her responsibilities include collaborating with RAND business units and RAND Gulf States university partners on project development in the Gulf region. She joined RAND in 2000 as a management scientist at RAND in Pittsburgh, where she specialized in the following areas: innovation and technology development; regional economic development, including development of frameworks to evaluate issues of governance, consolidation, and cooperation and economic effectiveness, and benchmarks and metrics for analyses and comparisons; science and technology policy; organizational effectiveness; and decision making. Prior to joining RAND, Sleeper was a private sector transportation management analyst. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in organization science and economics from Carnegie Mellon University, her M.S. in policy analysis and public management from SUNY Stony Brook, and her B.A. in environmental design and planning from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Research Focus
Technology, information, and innovation; logistics; public and private organization management
Recent Projects
- Improving recapitalization planning on a fleet management model for the high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle
- Government consolidation and economic development in Allegheny County and the city of Pittsburgh
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