Molly McIntosh is director of Corporate Planning and Analysis at RAND, where she is responsible for business planning, enterprise financial performance metrics, and business analyses that support strategy, investments, and internal operations. She previously served as the director of the Personnel, Readiness, and Health Program in the National Security Research Division and a senior economist with a deep background in military personnel research. McIntosh's RAND research has focused on comparing compensation for DoD civilians and workers in the private sector; DoD cyber workload, the workforce, and compensation; costing billets for large DoD organizations; and the health of the nuclear workforce.
Prior to joining RAND, McIntosh was research program director of the Navy Compensation and Personnel Policy Program at CNA, which runs the U.S. Department of the Navy's FFRDC. At CNA, she led studies on a variety of military personnel issues, including the effectiveness of special and incentive pays, policies to address manning shortfalls, and drivers of officer and enlisted retention and performance. She also served as CNA's scientific analyst to director, Military Personnel Plans and Policy Division, and U.S. Navy and field representative to commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific.
McIntosh has a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. in economics, Princeton University; M.A. in economics, Princeton University; B.A. in economics, University of California, Berkeley
