Pat White

Pat White is a senior international / defense researcher at RAND. Prior to joining RAND, he served as the director of the Department of Air Force's Office of Labor and Economic Analysis (OLEA) while on active duty as a Colonel. OLEA conducted workforce policy and program evaluation directly for Air Force and Space Force senior policy makers. During his Air Force career, he served as a Manpower and Organization / Force Support Officer at the wing, major command, air staff, and Joint Chiefs of Staff levels as well as deployed to the Middle East at the Squadron, Air Component Headquarters and U.S. Joint Task Force levels. In addition to commanding a Force Support Squadron and an Expeditionary Support Squadron, he served on the faculty at the United States Air Force Academy as an Assistant Professor of Geography.

His primary research interests align with his Air Force strategic workforce planning and people analytics experience in organizational design, workforce design, talent management system optimization, and workforce resourcing within the Department of Defense planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) as well as operational planning processes. He holds master's degrees in military operational art and science as well as geography from Air University and the University of Arizona, respectively.