Thomas Light is a senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. His research spans a variety of areas including military acquisition, cost, manpower, and logistics issues, as well as transportation and energy policy. Examples of Light's research include an analysis of cost and schedule growth for military acquisition programs; a study of the effects of restructuring Air Force aircraft maintenance career fields; an assessment of the benefits and costs of speeding up highway expansion projects in Southern California; an analysis of alternative policy options for reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions; an evaluation of strategies for reducing domestic oil consumption; and a review of equity concerns associated with congestion pricing. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.
Ph.D. and M.S. in economics, Cornell University; B.S. in economics and accounting, University of Oregon
