Director, RAND Forecasting Initiative; Senior Policy Researcher
Anthony Vassalo is a senior researcher at RAND and director of the RAND Forecasting Initiative (RFI). RFI allows Vassalo to support government and military decisionmakers in the areas of forecasting, foresight, strategic warning, and risk mitigation. It also provides the opportunity to support researchers across every division and area of interest within RAND, using crowdsourced probabilistic forecasting in new and creative ways. His research areas include international security, U.S. defense and foreign policy, homeland security, and the intelligence community. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Prior to coming to RAND, Vassalo served as the Associate Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration, responsible for the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the President’s Daily Brief Enterprise (PDB), the National Intelligence Managers, and a number of prioritization, collection, and assessment activities. He was the ODNI Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and served in the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning (DSOP) at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), where he was responsible for leading strategic counterterrorism planning activities at the direction of the National Security Council Staff. Prior to entering the intelligence community, he was a career Army officer, serving in numerous command and staff positions. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, Vassalo also holds graduate degrees from Duke and Harvard Universities, and served as an assistant professor in the Department of History at West Point.
B.S., U.S. Military Academy; M.A. in history, Duke; A.L.M. in management, Harvard; A.L.M. in international relations, Harvard
