IMEY Advisory Group
Dr. Ross Anthony (Information)
Associate Director for Global Health
RAND Center for Domestic and International Security
Advisory Group Information
Ambassador David Aaron
Ambassador David Aaron is Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation where he also coordinates
counter-terrorism and homeland security research. He has served in both the government and the private sector. A graduate of Occidental
College and Princeton University, he then entered the Foreign Service, where he held a variety of posts, which included the U.S. Delegation
to NATO and to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union. After leaving the Foreign Service, he continued in government in
several positions, including the National Security Council staff where he was responsible for arms control and strategic doctrine.
Subsequently, he became a Task Force Director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and then Deputy National Security Advisor to
President Jimmy Carter. In the latter capacity, he chaired sub-Cabinet committees dealing with Arms Control and with Intelligence.
He also served as a confidential presidential emissary to Europe, where he negotiated the deployment of Medium Range missiles, to the
Middle East where he helped prepare for the Camp David negotiations, as well as to Africa, Latin America, and China.
Upon leaving government, Amb. Aaron became Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions at Oppenheimer & Co. and Vice Chairman of the board of Oppenheimer International.
During the Clinton administration, he served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he negotiated the international anti-bribery convention. At the same time, he was appointed Special White House Envoy for Cryptography, to develop international guidelines for encryption technology in trade and communications. Subsequently, Amb. Aaron was appointed Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade where he negotiated the US/EU privacy accord.
After leaving government in 2000, he became Senior International Advisor to the law firm Dorsey LLP until his appointment as a Senior Fellow at RAND. He is the author of three novels published in ten languages and two PBS documentaries including Lessons of the 1991 Gulf War.
C. Ross Anthony, Ph.D.
Dr. Anthony is a Senior Economist at RAND and interim Director and Associate Director of Global Health of the Center for Domestic
and International Health Security, which seeks among others to conduct studies in international health that seek to improve quality
and access to care and to make health a more important part of our foreign policy. Dr. Anthony is also Director of the Center Military
Health Policy Research, which is a joint program at RAND between its FFRDCs and the Health Program, which conducts research to improve
the provision and budgeting of health care to active duty and retired military personnel. He also just completed serving on the U.S.
Presidential Task Force on Improving Health Care for Our Nation's Veterans.
Dr. Anthony has over twenty years of experience and leadership in the health care field„including a unique combination of work at all levels of government (local, county, state, national, and international) and in all sectors of the economy (public, private, and volunteer). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Before joining RAND, Dr. Anthony was a Vice-President and Director of the International Health Services Group, at IPAC which was a consulting firm offering health care expertise and marketing support to U.S. and international governments, private companies, and organizations. Before this, Dr. Anthony served as Director of the Office of Development Resources for Europe at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). There he oversaw six divisions including the Health Division with responsibility for program design and oversight in 15 Eastern European countries, and managed design of health programs for the former Soviet Union. From 1986-89, Dr. Anthony served as an Associate Administrator for Program Development of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). He oversaw the development of program policy, regulations, and health services research for the $120 billion Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Dr. Anthony also developed and managed the Dhorpatan Health Project, a small hospital and community health project located in remote rural Nepal; was a Principal in Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., a private consulting firm that works with national and international health care organizations to develop policy alternatives; taught health economics at the University of Oregon, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal.
Susan Everingham
Susan Everingham is the Director of International Programs within RAND's National Security Research Division. International Programs
comprises three regional centers: the Center for Asia Pacific Policy, the Center for Middle East Public Policy, and the Center for
Russia Eurasia, as well as other internationally focused work and the Pardee Center for Longer Term Global Policy and the Future Human
Condition. As the Director of International Programs, Susan is guiding these centers to support RAND's globalization agenda.
A quantitative policy analyst at RAND since 1988, Susan has been involved in a diverse array of policy studies, concentrating on the mathematical modeling of complex systems, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of policy alternatives. Her early work focused on ballistic missile defense and military communication systems. She co-authored RAND's 1994 study comparing the cost-effectiveness of various cocaine control strategies and developed the Markov-based model of the demand for cocaine that was used in that research; she also contributed to a number of studies on violence prevention. Ms. Everingham is also a Professor in the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. She has a B.A. degree in mathematics and biology from Williams College, and an M.A. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Charles Goldman, Ph.D.
Charles A. Goldman is a Senior Economist and Associate Director, RAND Education. He specializes in the economics of education. He and
several colleagues are currently leading a large effort to reform the education system of the State of Qatar. His most recent book is
In Pursuit of Prestige, with RAND colleagues Dominic Brewer and Susan Gates. He has also recently published The PhD Factory, which
analyzes the production and employment of science and engineering Ph.D.s in the United States, and RAND's report Paying for University
Research Facilities and Administration. Prior to joining RAND in 1993, Dr. Goldman earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in economic analysis and policy from the Stanford University
Graduate School of Business.
Carole Gresenz, Ph.D
Carole Roan Gresenz is an economist in RAND's Arlington, Virginia office and the Associate Director for Research for RAND's Institute
for Civil Justice (ICJ). Over the past five years, she has conducted studies on health law topics for the ICJ. Previous work explored
the effects of legislation that would remove obstacles to civil litigation against managed care organizations for wrongful benefit
denial or delay. A recent study describes the nature of disputes between patients and managed care organizations, and ongoing research
is analyzing the system of external review of managed care organizations' decisions. Dr. Gresenz has also been active in a number of
other health-related research areas. Her current research addresses how health care markets affect access to health care among the
uninsured, and in previous research she studied health insurance coverage of welfare leavers in California, and the relationship
between community income inequality and mental health. Carole has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Brown University.
Lynn Karoly, Ph.D.
Lynn is a Senior Economist at RAND Corporation and Professor of Economics at the RAND Graduate School. Her expertise includes social
welfare policy, welfare and children, early care and education, poverty and inequality, U.S. labor markets, and retirement. She received
her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics, Yale University; B.A., Claremont McKenna (Men's) College.
Lynn recently led a project that comprehensively synthesized the research literature on the effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation on economic outcomes and family and child well-being. Testified in 2001 on the findings for the hearing on "Welfare Reform: Success in Moving Toward Work," before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives. Also led a team that investigated the costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs based on a thorough literature review and synthesis, and a cost-benefit analysis. Testified in 1998 on the findings before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, U.S. House of Representatives. Also testified on the widening income and wage gap before Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives.
She is a member of the Panel on Research and Development Spending on Children, 2002-present, associate editor of the Cambridge University Press "RAND Studies in Policy Analysis" Book Series, and research associate for the Institute for Research on Poverty; and has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources, as a member of the NIH Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology, and Methods (SNEM-3) Study Section; as a member of the design team that developed the questionnaire instrument for the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLYS) survey; and as a member and chair of the Dorothy S. Thomas Award Committee.
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