Paul K. Davis is a retired senior principal researcher and adjunct at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. His research interests include strategic planning; decisionmaking theory; deterrence theory; advanced methods of analysis under uncertainty; analysis under uncertainty; modeling, simulation, and gaming. He has authored or coauthored books and papers on defense planning, capabilities-based planning, portfolio analysis, deterrence and influence, social science for counterterrorism, social-behavioral modeling for complex systems, and multiresolution modeling. Before joining RAND, he was a senior executive in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). He has served on numerous national panels for DoD, the National Academy, and the intelligence community. He is also a regular reviewer of several professional journals. Davis received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Ph.D. in chemical physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S. in chemistry, University of Michigan
