| John D. Graham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 Pittsburgh, PA |
| Residence | Bloomington, Indiana |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Wake Forest University MPP from Duke University PhD from Carnegie Mellon University |
| Occupation | Professor, dean |
| Employer | Indiana University |
| Spouse | Susan W. Graham |
| Website | |
| http://www.indiana.edu/~spea/faculty/graham-johnd.shtml | |
John D. Graham is dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). [1]
John D. Graham began his tenure at SPEA in 2008[2]. He is the fourth dean in the school’s 36-year history.
Dr. Graham's personal research interests include government reform, energy and the environment, and the future of the automobile in both developed and developing countries. Previous to his appointment as dean, he served as dean at the Frederick Pardee RAND Graduate School at the RAND Corporation in California. While at RAND, Dr. Graham streamlined the core curriculum, established new analytic concentrations, revised the program requirements to enable students to launch their dissertations more promptly and raised funds from individuals and corporations to support scholarships, dissertation support and policy papers co-authored by students and RAND researchers.
Prior to joining RAND, Dr. Graham served in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2006. As the Senate-confirmed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Dr. Graham led a staff of 50 career policy analysts who reviewed major regulatory proposals from Cabinet agencies. Prior to his role at OMB, Dr. Graham was a tenured Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
From 1990 to 2001 Dr. Graham founded and led the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA). By raising over $10 million in project grants and philanthropic contributions, Dr. Graham helped support eight new faculty positions and dozens of post-doctoral and doctoral students. By 2001 HCRA had become internationally recognized for analytic contributions to environmental protection, injury prevention, and medical technology innovation.
In 1995 Dr. Graham was elected President of the Society for Risk Analysis, an international membership organization of 2,400 scientists and engineers. Dr. Graham reached out to risk analysts in Europe, China, Japan and Australia as he helped organize the first World Congress on Risk Analysis (Brussels, 2000).
Dr. Graham earned his B.A. (politics and economics) at Wake Forest University (1978) where he won national awards as an intercollegiate debater. He earned his M.A. degree in public policy at Duke University (1980) before serving as staff associate to Chairman Howard Raiffa’s Committee on Risk and Decision Making of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences. His Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College Ph.D. dissertation on automobile safety was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a pro-airbag decision in 1983 and again in 1985 by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole. Subsequently, his first academic position was at the Heinz College.
The Greening of Industry: A Risk Management Approach
Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment
Harnessing Science for Environmental Regulation
Auto Safety