RAND Corporation
ORGANIZATION
Nonprofit organization founded in Santa Monica, California on May 14, 1948. The name RAND is a contraction of the words research and development.
Official Website:
http://www.rand.org/
Founding Date:
15-May-1948
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken Adelman | Diplomat | 9-Jun-1946 | Deputy US Ambassador to the UN, 1981-83 | |
| Graham T. Allison | Scholar | 23-Mar-1940 | Kennedy School of Government | |
| Dan Ariely | Economist | 29-Apr-1968 | The Upside of Irrationality | |
| Hap Arnold | Military | 25-Jun-1886 | 15-Jan-1950 | Commander, US Army Air Corps, WWII |
| Kenneth J. Arrow | Economist | 23-Aug-1921 | Social Choice and Individual Values | |
| Norman Augustine | Business | 27-Jul-1935 | CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 | |
| Paul Baran | Engineer | 29-Apr-1926 | 26-Mar-2011 | Packet-sharing in computer communications |
| Carl Bildt | Head of State | 15-Jul-1949 | Foreign Minister of Sweden | |
| David H. Blackwell | Mathematician | 24-Apr-1919 | 8-Jul-2010 | Bayesian statistics |
| John Brademas | Politician | 2-Mar-1927 | Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 | |
| L. Paul Bremer | Government | 30-Sep-1941 | Director of the Iraq Provisional Authority | |
| Arthur C. Brooks | Author | 21-May-1964 | Gross National Happiness | |
| Harold Brown | Government | 19-Sep-1927 | US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81 | |
| Ronald W. Burkle | Business | c. 1953 | Supermarket Billionaire | |
| Richard R. Burt | Diplomat | 3-Feb-1947 | US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 | |
| Frank Carlucci | Government | 18-Oct-1930 | US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89 | |
| Steven C. Clemons | Pundit | 1962 | Senior Fellow, New America Foundation | |
| Samuel T. Cohen | Physicist | 25-Jan-1921 | 28-Nov-2010 | Neutron bomb |
| Stephen P. Cohen | Scholar | c. 1946 | Foreign policy analyst | |
| Lovida H. Coleman, Jr. | Attorney | 21-May-1949 | Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan | |
| William T. Coleman, Jr. | Government | 7-Jul-1920 | US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77 | |
| Gary L. Countryman | Business | c. 1939 | CEO of Liberty Mutual, 1986-98 | |
| Robert Curvin | Activist | 23-Feb-1934 | 29-Sep-2015 | Former Black Power activist |
| Kenneth W. Dam | Government | 10-Aug-1932 | Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 | |
| Butler Derrick | Politician | 30-Sep-1936 | 5-May-2014 | Congressman from South Carolina, 1975-95 |
| Peter Diamond | Economist | 29-Apr-1940 | Diamond paradox in economics | |
| James F. Dobbins | Diplomat | 31-May-1942 | US Ambassador to the EU, 1991-93 | |
| Donald W. Douglas | Business | 6-Apr-1892 | 1-Feb-1981 | Founder of Douglas Aircraft Co. |
| George C. Eads | Economist | 20-Aug-1942 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81 | |
| Otto Eckstein | Economist | 1-Aug-1927 | 22-Mar-1984 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 |
| Luigi R. Einaudi | Diplomat | 1-Mar-1936 | Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05 | |
| Daniel Ellsberg | Government | 7-Apr-1931 | Pentagon Papers source | |
| Kenneth Feinberg | Government | 23-Oct-1945 | Pay Czar for TARP and Gulf of Mexico disaster | |
| Matt Fong | Government | 20-Nov-1953 | 1-Jun-2011 | Strategic Advisory Group |
| William Friedman | Scientist | 24-Sep-1891 | 12-Nov-1969 | Cryptography pioneer |
| Francis Fukuyama | Author | 27-Oct-1952 | The End of History and the Last Man | |
| Christopher B. Galvin | Business | 21-Mar-1950 | CEO of Motorola, 1995-2003 | |
| Raymond L. Garthoff | Diplomat | 26-Mar-1929 | US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1977-79 | |
| Timothy F. Geithner | Government | 18-Aug-1961 | US Secretary of the Treasury, 2009-13 | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Physicist | 15-Sep-1929 | Quarks and strangeness | |
| Sam Ginn | Business | c. 1938 | CEO of Airtouch Communications, 1993-99 | |
| Frederick W. Gluck | Business | c. 1935 | Vice Chairman of Bechtel, 1994-98 | |
| Dan Gorlin | Computer Programmer | c. 1956 | Choplifter | |
| Alan Greenspan | Economist | 6-Mar-1926 | Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 | |
| Pedro José Greer, Jr. | Doctor | 15-Jun-1956 | Gastroenterologist, RAND Trustee | |
| Zvi Griliches | Economist | 12-Sep-1930 | 4-Nov-1999 | Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Joseph A. Grundfest | Attorney | 8-Sep-1951 | Stanford law professor | |
| Rita E. Hauser | Activist | 12-Jul-1934 | Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan | |
| James J. Heckman | Economist | 19-Apr-1944 | Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior | |
| James D. Hodgson | Government | 3-Dec-1915 | 28-Nov-2012 | US Secretary of Labor, 1970-73 |
| Karen Elliott House | Journalist | 7-Dec-1947 | Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2002-06 | |
| Douglas G. Houser | Attorney | 11-Jul-1935 | Partner, Bullivant Houser Bailey | |
| Jen-Hsun Huang | Business | 17-Feb-1963 | CEO of NVIDIA | |
| Shirley Hufstedler | Judge | 24-Aug-1925 | US Secretary of Education, 1979-81 | |
| Robert E. Hunter | Diplomat | c. 1940 | US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98 | |
| Suzanne Nora Johnson | Business | 14-May-1957 | Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07 | |
| Herman Kahn | Scholar | 15-Feb-1922 | 7-Jul-1983 | Hudson Institute founder |
| Paul G. Kaminski | Military | 16-Sep-1942 | CEO of Technovation, Inc. | |
| Arnold Kanter | Government | 27-Feb-1945 | 10-Apr-2010 | Under Secy. of State for Political Affairs, 1991-93 |
| Bruce Karatz | Business | 1945 | CEO of KB Home, 1986-2006 | |
| Karen L. Katen | Business | 1948 | Senior Pfizer executive | |
| Lydia H. Kennard | Business | c. 1954 | Los Angeles World Airports | |
| Zalmay Khalilzad | Diplomat | 22-Mar-1951 | US Ambassador to the UN, 2007-09 | |
| Philip Lader | Government | 1946 | US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001 | |
| David M. Lawrence | Business | c. 1940 | CEO of Kaiser KHFP, 1991-2002 | |
| Curtis LeMay | Military | 15-Nov-1906 | 1-Oct-1990 | USAF General |
| Abba Lerner | Economist | 28-Oct-1903 | 27-Oct-1982 | The Economics of Control |
| Arthur Levitt | Business | 3-Feb-1931 | SEC Chairman, 1993-2001 | |
| Lewis Libby | Government | 22-Aug-1950 | Cheney's former Chief of Staff | |
| Alfred Lee Loomis | Physicist | 4-Nov-1887 | 1-Aug-1975 | Millionaire scientist |
| Michael Lynton | Business | c. 1960 | CEO of Sony Entertainment | |
| Harry M. Markowitz | Economist | 24-Aug-1927 | Portfolio theory | |
| Walter E. Massey | Business | 5-Apr-1938 | Morehouse College president, physicist | |
| Mark McClellan | Government | 26-Jun-1963 | Medicare Chief | |
| K. T. McFarland | Government | 1952 | Former Kissinger staffer | |
| Edward McGaffigan | Government | 8-Dec-1948 | 2-Sep-2007 | NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007 |
| Ann Dore McLaughlin | Government | 16-Nov-1941 | US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89 | |
| Edwin M. McMillan | Physicist | 18-Sep-1907 | 7-Sep-1991 | Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
| Newton N. Minow | Government | 17-Jan-1926 | FCC Chairman, 1961-63 | |
| Lloyd N. Morrisett | Administrator | 2-Nov-1929 | President, Markle Foundation, 1969-98 | |
| John Nash | Mathematician | 13-Jun-1928 | 23-May-2015 | Schizophrenic game theorist |
| Hassan Nemazee | Business | 27-Jan-1950 | Nemazee Capital Corporation | |
| Joseph P. Newhouse | Economist | 24-Feb-1942 | Rand economist, Harvard professor | |
| William Niskanen | Administrator | 13-Mar-1933 | 26-Oct-2011 | Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| Lauris Norstad | Military | 24-Mar-1907 | 12-Sep-1988 | Supreme Allied Commander, 1956-63 |
| Paul O'Neill | Government | 4-Dec-1935 | US Treasury Secretary, 2001-02 | |
| James E. Oberg | Historian | 7-Nov-1944 | Space exploration historian | |
| Michel Oksenberg | Scholar | 12-Oct-1938 | 22-Feb-2001 | Leading sinologist |
| Ronald L. Olson | Attorney | 1941 | Munger Tolles & Olson | |
| Amy Pascal | Business | 1959 | Sony Pictures co-chairman | |
| Merton J. Peck | Economist | 17-Dec-1925 | 1-Mar-2013 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
| Edmund S. Phelps | Economist | 26-Jul-1933 | Golden Rules of Economic Growth | |
| Percy A. Pierre | Educator | 3-Jan-1939 | President, Prairie View A&M University, 1983-89 | |
| Patricia S. Pineda | Business | c. 1952 | General Counsel, Toyota Motors NA | |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer | Chemist | 6-Jan-1914 | 26-Dec-1997 | President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| John Edward Porter | Politician | 1-Jun-1935 | Congressman from Illinois, 1980-2001 | |
| Michael Powell | Government | 23-Mar-1963 | FCC Chairman 2001-05, Colin Powell's son | |
| John Raisian | Economist | c. 1953 | Director, Hoover Institution | |
| John S. Reed | Business | 1939 | CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000 | |
| Frederick Reines | Physicist | 16-Mar-1918 | 26-Aug-1998 | Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Condoleezza Rice | Government | 14-Nov-1954 | US Secretary of State, 2005-09 | |
| Donald B. Rice | Business | 4-Jun-1939 | Secretary of the US Air Force, 1989-93 | |
| James E. Rohr | Business | 18-Oct-1948 | CEO of PNC Financial | |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Government | 9-Jul-1932 | US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06 | |
| Gary Samore | Government | 31-Mar-1953 | White House WMD Czar, 2009-13 | |
| Thomas C. Schelling | Economist | 14-Apr-1921 | The Strategy of Conflict | |
| James R. Schlesinger | Government | 15-Feb-1929 | 27-Mar-2014 | Served Nixon, Ford, Carter |
| William F. Sharpe | Economist | 16-Jun-1934 | Capital asset pricing model | |
| Martin Shubik | Economist | 24-Mar-1926 | Economist and game theorist | |
| William E. B. Siart | Business | c. 1946 | Former CEO, First Interstate Bancorp | |
| Walter B. Slocombe | Government | 23-Sep-1941 | Defense analyst | |
| Richard H. Solomon | Diplomat | 1937 | President of US Institute For Peace | |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong | Business | 1952 | Founder, Abraxis BioScience | |
| Jerry I. Speyer | Business | 23-Jun-1940 | Tishman Speyer Properties | |
| Dennis Stanfill | Business | 1-Apr-1927 | CEO of 20th Century Fox, 1971-81 | |
| Frank Stanton | Business | 20-Mar-1908 | 24-Dec-2006 | President of CBS, 1946-73 |
| James B. Steinberg | Government | 7-May-1953 | Deputy Secretary of State | |
| Ivan Sutherland | Engineer | 16-May-1938 | Father of computer graphics | |
| Donald W. Tang | Business | c. 1963 | Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns | |
| Ratan N. Tata | Business | 28-Dec-1937 | Chairman of Tata Group | |
| James A. Thomson | Administrator | 21-Jan-1945 | President and CEO, Rand Corporation | |
| Murray Turoff | Scientist | 13-Feb-1936 | Computer conferencing and instant messaging | |
| John P. White | Government | 27-Feb-1937 | US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1995-97 | |
| Oliver E. Williamson | Economist | 27-Sep-1932 | Transaction cost economics | |
| James Q. Wilson | Scholar | 27-May-1931 | 2-Mar-2012 | The Moral Sense |
| Frank G. Wisner | Diplomat | 1938 | US Ambassador to India, 1994-97 | |
| Albert Wohlstetter | Author | 19-Dec-1913 | 10-Jan-1997 | Nuclear strategist |
| Leona Woods | Physicist | 9-Aug-1919 | 10-Nov-1986 | Physicist at University of Chicago |
| Walter B. Wriston | Business | 3-Aug-1919 | 19-Jan-2005 | CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |
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