Michael D. Rich is Executive Vice President of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit organization that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis, a position he has held since 1993. RAND has annual revenues of over $250 million, produces about 1,000 public reports and journal articles each year, and operates the world’s largest accredited PhD program in public policy. It has about 1,000 researchers in eight offices around the world. Since 2003, he has been co-chair of the Board of Overseers of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute with Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned.
Mr. Rich was formerly Vice President in charge of RAND’s National Security Research Division and Director of the National Defense Research Institute. Before becoming Vice President, he served at RAND as Deputy Vice President, Director of the Defense Resource Management Program. For many years he chaired the Admissions Committee of the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
In addition to serving on the IISS Council, he serves on the board of trustees, Council for Aide to Education, New York; the board of trustees, the Communications Institute, Los Angeles; the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors; the Board of Directors of WISE & Healthy Aging, Santa Monica; the UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors; and the Advisory Board of the Everychild Foundation. He was previously chair of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Financial Oversight Committee.
Mr. Rich received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
