Etienne Rosas

Etienne Rosas is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. He holds a dual B.A. degree in finance and international business from the University of Texas at Brownsville (2007), an M.A. degree in international relations and diplomacy from the American Graduate School in Paris and an M.A. in diplomacy and strategic negotiation from Universite Paris Sud XI.

Originally from Brownsville, Texas, and a second-generation Mexican American, he is bilingual since childhood and has focused on issues pertaining to U.S.-Mexico relations, in particular drug policy and transnational criminal organizations. At RAND, he has analyzed the crime-terror nexus to design new strategies for countering violent non-state actors and violent extremism (CVE), at one point working with the Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Public Safety in the crafting of their CVE program. Most recently, he worked with the HSOAC Municipalities Sector team on developing the Puerto Rico Recovery Plan that was submitted to U.S. Congress. Generally, topics relevant to his research include criminal and extremist organizations, U.S.-Mexico/Latin America relations, immigration, economic inequality, corruption, conflict and international development, and international drug policy reform.