Michael Simpson is a policy researcher at RAND. His work focuses on disaster management; infrastructure planning and resilience; science and technology policy; and the intersection between strategic planning, federal budgeting, and acquisition. Prior to joining RAND, Simpson was a senior analyst at McAleese and Associates, a private consulting firm, where he primarily researched defense budgeting, acquisition, and industrial base issues. Simpson received an M.P.A., with a concentration in energy policy, from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, a B.A. in history, with a concentration in U.S. foreign policy history, from Stanford University; and an M.A. in political science from UCLA.
B.A. in history, Stanford University; M.P.A. in public affairs, The University of Texas at Austin; M.A. in political science, UCLA
