Centers & Chairs

Research Centers

The Center on AI, Security, and Technology
The Center on AI, Security, and Technology (CAST) conducts cutting-edge research on transformative, high-impact technologies — from artificial intelligence to biotechnology — to shape policies that protect global security and advance the public good.
The Center for the Geopolitics of AGI
The Center for the Geopolitics of AGI is committed to helping decisionmakers understand, anticipate, and prepare to navigate the national security and geopolitical implications of artificial general intelligence.
China Research Center
The China Research Center studies China's technology, economy, and political system and the strategic implications of its evolving capabilities, intentions, and behaviors.
Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy
The Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy assesses the evidence behind, competing claims about, and explores new approaches to, U.S. grand strategy.
Center for Climate and Energy Futures
The Center for Climate and Energy Futures (CCEF) studies emerging risks associated with the changing climate, society’s responses to those risks, and the processes and conditions needed for policy implementation.
The RAND Forecasting Initiative
RFI aims to become the world's leading crowdsourced forecasting enterprise on policy-relevant questions.
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition
The RAND Pardee Center aims to improve our ability to think about the longer-range future and develop new methods of analyzing potential long-range, global effects of today's policy options.

International Chairs

International chairs conduct research on key strategic and regional issues.

Distinguished Chair, Tang Chair in China Policy Studies, held by Jennifer Bouey
Taiwan Policy Initiative, Vacant
Distinguished Chair, Russia and Eurasia Policy, held by Samuel Charap
Distinguished Chair, Korea Policy, held by Miyeon Oh
Distinguished Chair, Israel Policy, held by Shira Efron
Distinguished Chair, Strategy and Diplomacy, held by Salman Ahmed

Centers & Chairs

Research Centers

The Center on AI, Security, and Technology

The Center for the Geopolitics of AGI

China Research Center

Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy

Center for Climate and Energy Futures

The RAND Forecasting Initiative

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition

International Chairs