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K. Jack Riley

Associate Director, RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment

K. Jack Riley (Ph.D., Public Policy Analysis) is the Associate Director of RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment and also the acting director of RAND’s Center on Quality Policing. Though much of Riley’s current work revolves around homeland security, he leads a variety of research efforts on topics ranging from policing and drug sentencing to racial profiling and violence control and prevention. From 1999 to 2004, Riley served as Director of RAND Public Safety and Justice. He also served as the Director of the National Security Research Division’s Homeland Security Center from 2003 - 2004.

Since 2000, Riley has served on the admissions committee of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School. He also serves on the advisory board of the Forensic Science Institute at CSU-LA and on the Homeland Security Advisory Council for metropolitan Los Angeles. Most recently, he was named to the advisory board of the University of Southern California’s Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), a center of excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security. From 1995 to 1999, Riley was with the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. Riley received his B.A. (economics and Russian) from the University of Michigan in 1986; his M.S. (foreign service) from Georgetown in 1988; and his doctoral degree from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in 1993.

See Jack Riley's RAND Public Policy Experts Guide listing