- Paul Baran
Paul Baran (born April 29, 1926) was one of the developers of packet-switched networks along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He was born in Poland, but his family moved to Boston in 1928. Baran did undergraduate work at Drexel University, obtained his Masters degree in Engineering from UCLA in 1959 and began working for the RAND Corporation in the same year.
- Daniel Ellsberg
In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, then a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S Decision-making in Vietnam. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study of Vietnam for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gave a copy to The New York Times.
- Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs.
- Seth Jones
Seth Jones (born October 1972) is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. He was also a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
- Brian Michael Jenkins
Brian Michael Jenkins, born in 1942 in Chicago, is an expert on terrorism and transportation security. During his nearly four decades of analysis, Jenkins has advised governments, private corporations, the Catholic Church, the Church of England, and many other international organizations on terrorist threats. Jenkins is the author of many books, including "Unconquerable Nation", which explores the most pressing questions about terrorism.
- John von Neumann
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), …
- Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn was a military strategist and systems theorist employed at RAND Corporation, USA. His theories contributed to the development of the nuclear strategy of the United States.
- Cheryl Benard
Cheryl Benard (born: 1953) is an analyst with the RAND Corporation, where she directs the Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth (IMEY). Her study Civil Democratic Islam created a great deal of controversy; it recommends dividing Muslims up in order to better control them. She is a novelist and feminist author on topics including current events, women in nation-building, youth radicalization in the European Diaspora, and secularization pertaining to Islam.
- Paul O'Neill
Paul Henry O'Neill (born December 4, 1935) served as the 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first Administration. He resigned in December 2002 under pressure from the administration and became a harsh critic. O'Neill was chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based industrial giant Alcoa from 1987 to 1999, and retired as chairman at the end of 2000. In 1995, he was made chairman of the RAND Corporation.
- Zvi Griliches
Zvi Griliches and aggregation. He was particularly interested in the measurements of hidden variables. Griliches served as the President of the Econometric Society in 1975, and as the President of the American Economic Association in 1993. From 1969 to 1977 he was one of editors of the journal "Econometrica". He served on the Stigler Commission in 1961 and the Boskin Commission in 1996, …
- Harry Markowitz
Harry Max Markowitz (born August 24, 1927) is an influential economist at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. Formerly at the RAND Corporation, Markowitz won the Nobel Prize in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio theory, studying the effects of asset risk, …
- Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall is the director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment. Appointed to the position in 1973 by United States President Richard Nixon, Marshall has been re-appointed by every president that followed. Andrew Marshall was consulted for the 1992 draft of Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), created by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad.
- James Thomson
Dr. James A. Thomson has been RAND Corporation's president and chief executive officer since August 1989 and a member of the RAND staff since 1981.
- Abram Shulsky
Abram Shulsky is a noted U.S. government intelligence analyst, serving most recently as Director of the Office of Special Plans, heading its Iranian Directorate.
- Frank Stanton
Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20 1908 - December 24 2006) was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from 1961 until 1967.
- Melvin Dresher
Melvin Dresher (1911-1992) was a Polish-born American mathematician, notable for developing, with Merrill Flood, the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's Dilemma while at RAND in 1950 (Albert W. Tucker gave the game its prison-sentence interpretation, and thus the name by which it is known today). Dresher came to the United States in 1923.
- David Galula
David Galula (1919-1967) was a French military officer born in Tunisia to French parents. He retired as a Colonel. His 1964 book, "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice" is now heavily advocated by the US Military for advice on operations in the campaign in Iraq. In 2006 the RAND Corporation released a formerly classified 1963 report, which formed the basis of Galula's 1964 book.
- James Steinberg
James Steinberg ... Deputy National Security Advisor, 1996-2000 Strobe Talbott ... Deputy Secretary of State, 1994-2001
- Jeremy Shapiro
Jeremy Shapiro is Director of Research at the Center on the United States and Europe, and a fellow of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Previously he held positions as analyst and research associate for organizations such as the RAND Corporation and MIT. He is author of many publications including: Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq co-authored with Philip H. Gordon .
- Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Ann McLaughlin Korologos has served as a member of Kellogg Company's Board of Directors since 1989. As a member of Kellogg Company's Board of Directors, Ms. Korologos serves on the Compensation Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee, and the Social Responsibility Committee. She currently services as chairman of the RAND Board of Trustees. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
- Roberta Wohlstetter
Roberta Mary Morgan, better known by her married name of Roberta Wohlstetter, (August 22,1912 - January 6, 2007), was one of America's most important historians of military intelligence. Her most influential work is "Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision". The former secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is said to have required that his aides read it. Indeed, …
- Alain Enthoven
Alain C. Enthoven, born September_10, 1930, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. He is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Institute for International Studies. Enthoven received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1952, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1954, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1956.
- Arnold Kanter
Dr. Arnold Kanter (born February 27, 1945) served as Under Secretary of State from 1991 to 1993. He also held a position on the White House staff from 1989 to 1991 as Special Assistant to the President and served in a variety of capacities in the State Department from 1977 to 1985. He has served on the faculty of both Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Kanter was born in Chicago and is a founding member of the The Scowcroft Group
- Merton Davies
Merton E. Davies (1917-2001) worked for the Douglas Aircraft corporation in the 1940s and became a pioneer of spy satellite technology (including Corona) as a member of RAND Corporation after it split off from Douglas in 1948. Although the majority of his work in this regard remains classified, on August 18, 2000 he was acknowledged as one of the founders of national reconnaissance by the National Reconnaissance Office.
- Jacob Marschak
Jacob Marschak (* 23 July 1898 Kiev, Imperial Russia, now capital of Ukraine; † 27 July 1977 Los Angeles, USA) was an American economist of Russian Jewish origin.
- Cliff Shaw
J.C. (Cliff) Shaw was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. He was one of the developers of Information Processing Language, a programming language of the 1950s.
- Jack Hirshleifer
Jack Hirshleifer (August 26, 1925 - July 26, 2005) was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica from 1949 to 1955. He then taught at the University of Chicago from 1955 to 1960, and at UCLA until 2001. Hirshleifer was well-known for his work on uncertainty and information in economics, …
- Armen Alchian
Armen Albert Alchian (born April 12, 1914, Fresno, California) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Alchian was born into an Armenian-American family. He attended California State University, Fresno for two years before transferring to Stanford University in 1934, which awarded him the B.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1944). He was a statistician with the USA Army Air Corps, 1942-46. In 1946, he joined the Economics Department at UCLA, …
- Robert Komer
Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer (February 23, 1922 - April 9, 2000) was a key figure in the pacification effort to win South Vietnamese "hearts and minds" during the Vietnam War, heading Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support. He was born in Chicago, but raised in St. Louis. A graduate of Harvard, he served in World War II and joined the CIA in 1947. Before his service in Vietnam, Komer served on the staff of the National Security Council, …
- Michael D. Rich
Michael Rich is executive vice president of the RAND Corporation, the institution's second-ranking position. He has held this position since January 1993. He is also co-chair of the Board of Overseers of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute; and chair of the Pardee RAND Graduate School Admissions Committee.
- Jerry Speyer
Mr. Speyer was one of the two founding partners of Tishman Speyer Properties (TSP), and has been President and CEO since TSP's formation in 1978. Prior to 1978, Mr. Speyer was a Senior Vice President and Director of Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc. An active advocate on behalf of New York City, Mr. Speyer has headed many community, business and cultural organizations.
- Henry H. Arnold
General of the Air Force Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold GCB (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an aviation pioneer and Chief of the United States Army Air Corps (from 1938), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces (from 1941 until 1945) and the first and only General of the Air Force (in 1949). He is also the only American to achieve five-star rank in two of its armed services.
- Joseph Grundfest
Joseph A. Grundfest '78 is a nationally prominent expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. His scholarship has been published in the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford law reviews, and he has been recognized as one of the most influential attorneys in the United States.
- Benjamin Karney
Benjamin Karney (born 1968, Los Angeles) is a full behavioral scientist at the Rand Corporation. His area of expertise is interpersonal relationships and marriage. Recent work addresses the effects of stress on marital processes, divorce rates in military marriages, intimate relationships among youth and young adults, and marriage in low-income populations. His latest report is "Families Under Stress: An Assessment of Data, Theory, …
- Bob Bemer
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Bemer graduated from Cranbrook School in 1936 and took an A.B. in Mathematics at Albion College in 1940. He earned a Certificate in Aeronautical Engineering at Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in 1941.
- Harold L. Brode
Harold L. Brode is a nuclear weapons effects physicist who pioneered computer simulations of nuclear explosions at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s. In 1951 he received his PhD from Cornell University where his supervisor was Hans A. Bethe. He is co-founder of R&D Associates, Vice-President of Strategic Systems at Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation and Chairman of the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency's Scientific Advisory Group for Effects (SAGE).
- Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut. Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa. After graduating from Venice High School (where he now has a building named for him) in California, Cunningham joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and began flight training in 1952. He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956. Cunningham received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in respectively 1960 and 1961, …
- Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. (April 6, 1892 - February 1, 1981) was a United States aircraft industrialist. His most significant achievement was as founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921 (the company later merged into McDonnell Douglas Corporation). He received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1914.
- George Tanham
George K. Tanham (1922-2003) joined the American RAND Corporation in 1955 and held several positions before retiring in 1987, including leading Project AIR FORCE from 1970 to 1975. He also served on the RAND Board of Trustees and was an advisory trustee at the time of his death. He continued to write on international security issues, especially regarding South Asia, after his retirement.
- Timothy F. Geithner
Timothy F. Geithner became the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on November 17, 2003. In that capacity, he serves as the vice chairman and a permane... ... Before joining the Treasury, Mr. Geithner worked for Kissinger Associates, Inc.