Michael D. Rich
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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.
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[edit] History at RAND
Mr. Rich was formerly Vice President in charge of RAND's National Security Research Division and Director of the National Defense Research Institute, the federally funded research and development center that provides research and policy analysis to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Department of State. He was also responsible for national security studies sponsored at RAND by the intelligence community, Department of Energy, and private foundations. He has published numerous classified and unclassified RAND reports, including studies of the B-2 acquisition strategy, trends in weapons acquisition, multinational coproduction of aerospace systems, various readiness issues, and other topics related to national defense.
Before becoming Vice President, he served at RAND as Deputy Vice President, Director of the Defense Resource Management Program, and Associate Head of the Political Science Department.
[edit] Affiliations
Mr. Rich is also a member of the California Bar, the Council on Foreign Relations, and several other professional organizations. He is a member of the Governing Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; the Board of Directors of the Council for Aid to Education (chairman 1996-2005); the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors; Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Communications Institute; the Board of Directors of WISE Senior Services; the UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors; the Blue Ribbon Committee of the WISE/Los Angeles Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; the Advisory Board of the Everychild Foundation. He chaired the Financial Oversight Committee of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District from 2000-2003.
[edit] Education
Mr. Rich received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
[edit] Family
He is the son of aviation pioneer Ben Rich and his wife Faye. Michael Rich is married to Debra Granfield, a retired labor attorney. The couple has two sons: Matthew, an Associate at a private equity firm (http://www.arlingtoncap.com/rich.html) in Washington, D.C.; and William, a student at the University of Michigan.
