Pat White

Pat White is a senior international / defense researcher at RAND.

His research interests concentrate on strategic and operational workforce planning and organizational design through projects that leverage workforce resourcing and sizing, people analytics and talent management system optimization approaches. He enjoys integrating Department of Defense planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) processes and Force Design to guide force generation and operational planning processes.

Prior to joining RAND, he served 30 years in the Air Force, including his last assignment as the director of the Department of Air Force's Office of Labor and Economic Analysis (OLEA). 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. He also served on the faculty at the United States Air Force Academy as an Assistant Professor of Geography.

He holds master's degrees in military operational art and science as well as geography from Air University and the University of Arizona, respectively.