World Bank President to Give Commencement Address at Pardee RAND Graduate School

Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group, will be the featured commencement speaker June 23 at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

A total of 32 doctoral degrees and 42 master's degrees will be awarded during the ceremony, which will begin at 10 a.m. Honorary degrees and other awards also will be given during the ceremony.

The graduate school is the public policy analysis doctoral program based at the RAND Corporation. Founded in 1970 as one of eight graduate programs in public policy created to train future leaders in the public and private sectors in policy analysis, the school is the only program specializing in the doctorate degree and the only one based at a public policy research organization. The school holds commencement exercises every two years.

• Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group
• James Thomson, former president and CEO of RAND
• Francis Fukuyama, RAND trustee and a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University

10 a.m. Saturday, June 23, 2012.

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Lisa Sodders, RAND Office of Media Relations
(310) 393-0411 ext. 7139 — lsodders@rand.org