Paul Mayberry is an adjunct senior policy researcher at RAND. Specializing in readiness assessment, national military strategy, total force manpower, and military training and education, he also serves as a teaching professor in the Intelligence and Security Studies Department at Coastal Carolina University.
Before joining RAND, Mayberry was a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led the Navy and Marine Corps Headquarters business segment. He directed strategy development and organizational design efforts for government clients and led program assessments to inform senior-level resource allocation and policy decisions.
Mayberry served as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness). In this role, he developed and oversaw policies and assessment systems to ensure U.S. armed forces were prepared for assigned missions. He advised the Secretary of Defense on troop deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and led initiatives to implement a capabilities-based readiness reporting system and modernize joint training environments.
Earlier in his career, he held senior policy and analytical positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. He also served as a program manager and director at the Center for Naval Analyses. In this role, Mayberry completed two field tours as an operations analyst with the Navy and Marine forces in the Pacific Fleet, designing naval fleet exercises and directing analytical teams.
Mayberry earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign; M.S., University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign; B.A. in highest honors, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Teaching Professor, Intelligence and Security Studies Department, Coastal Carolina University
