Director, Resource Management Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Senior Political Scientist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Stephanie Young is the director of the Resource Management Program at RAND Project AIR FORCE, a senior political scientist at RAND, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. As program director, she manages a diverse portfolio of research in support of the Department of the Air Force on topics related to acquisition, logistics, industrial base, sustainment, infrastructure, and organizational design. Her primary research interests relate to defense acquisition; budgeting; the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution system (PPBE); and broader resource allocation decisionmaking, but other recent work has focused on strategic competition, security cooperation and building partner capacity, countering-weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. policy in the Middle East and South Asia. She spent three months as an analyst embedded with the Special Operations Joint Task Force–Afghanistan, in Kabul. At RAND she also taught a Ph.D. level course on the U.S. defense budget at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and she previously served as the associate research department director of RAND's Defense and Political Sciences Department. She was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in history and a B.A. in physics, astrophysics, and history.
Ph.D., M.A. in history, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in physics, astrophysics, history, University of California, Berkeley
