Tom LaTourrette is a senior physical scientist at the RAND Corporation with over 15 years of experience in energy, public safety, and homeland security policy. Energy and natural resource research focuses on renewable transportation fuels, management of spent nuclear fuel, and assessing renewable and fossil energy resources. Public safety and homeland security research addresses worker safety and health in emergency response and mining, disaster insurance, terrorism risk modeling, and aviation and border security. LaTourrette has testified before the Secretary of Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, was a member of the Government Accountability Office's Yucca Mountain Alternative Uses expert panel, FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program Reform academic expert panel, and the California Little Hoover Commission's advisory panel for Safeguarding the State: Preparing for Catastrophic Events. LaTourrette also co-manages quality assurance for RAND's Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment Unit, a key aspect of which is overseeing the peer-review process for RAND reports and other research products. He holds a Ph.D. in geology from the California Institute of Technology.
Selected Publications
Dixon LE, LaTourrette T, Galvan DA, Goldman CA, Kalra N, Nelson C, Tsang F, Steinberg PS, Lyons J, Bowers J, Katin R, Process and Outcome Evaluation of the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, RAND (RR-1948-CEC), 2017
Tom LaTourrette and Noreen Clancy, The Impact on Federal Spending of Allowing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to Expire, RAND Corporation (RR-611-CCRMC), 2014
Tom LaTourrette, "Risk factors for injury in law enforcement officer vehicle crashes," Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 38(3), 2015
Tom LaTourrette et al., Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel: Strategy Alternatives and Policy Implications, RAND Corporation (MG-970-RC), 2010
Tom LaTourrette et al., Earthquake Insurance and Disaster Assistance: The Effect of Catastrophe Obligation Guarantees on Federal Disaster Assistance Expenditures in California, RAND Corporation (TR-896-CEA), 2010
Tom LaTourrette, "The Life-Saving Effectiveness of Body Armor for Police Officers," Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 7(10), 2010
Tom LaTourrette et al., Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants, RAND Corporation (TR-876-NETL), 2011
Henry Willis and Tom LaTourrette, "Using probabilistic terrorism risk modeling for regulatory benefit-cost analysis: Application to the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative in the Land Environment," Risk Analysis, 28, 2008
