RAND Corporation - Notable Participants

Notable Participants

• Henry H. "Hap" Arnold — General, United States Air Force
• Kenneth Arrow — economist, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, developed the impossibility theorem in social choice theory
• Bruno Augenstein — V.P., physicist, mathematician and space scientist
• Robert Aumann — mathematician, game theorist, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
• J. Paul Austin — Chairman of the Board, 1972–1981
• Paul Baran — one of the developers of packet switching which was used in Arpanet and later networks like the Internet
• Richard Bellman — Mathematician known for his work on dynamic programming
• Barry Boehm — worked in interactive computer graphics with the RAND Corporation in the 1960s and had helped define the ARPANET in the early phases of that program
• Harold L. Brode — physicist, leading nuclear weapons effects expert
• Bernard Brodie — Military strategist and nuclear architect
• Samuel Cohen — inventor of the neutron bomb in 1958
• Franklin R. Collbohm — Aviation Engineer, Douglas Aircraft Company — RAND founder and former director and trustee.
• Walter Cunningham — astronaut
• George Dantzig — mathematician, creator of the simplex algorithm for linear programming
• Linda Darling-Hammond — co-director, School Redesign Network
• James F. Digby — American Military Strategist, author of first treatise on precision guided munitions 1949–2007
• Stephen H. Dole — Author of the book Habitable Planets for Man
• Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. — President, Douglas Aircraft Company — RAND founder
• Daniel Ellsberg — leaker of the Pentagon Papers
• Francis Fukuyama — academic and author of The End of History and the Last Man
• Horace Rowan Gaither — Chairman of the Board, 1949–1959; 1960–1961; known for the Gaither Report.
• David Galula, French officer and scholar
• James J. Gillogly — cryptographer and computer scientist
• Brian Michael Jenkins — terrorism expert, Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation, and author of Unconquerable Nation
• Herman Kahn — theorist on nuclear war and one of the founders of scenario planning
• Zalmay Khalilzad — U.S. Ambassador to United Nations
• Henry Kissinger — United States Secretary of State (1973–1977); National Security Advisor (1969–1975); Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1973)
• Ann McLaughlin Korologos — Chairman of the Board, April 2004–present
• Lewis "Scooter" Libby — Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff
• Ray Mabus — Former ambassador, governor
• Harry Markowitz — economist, greatly advanced finanical portfolio theory by devising mean variance analysis
• Andrew W. Marshall — military strategist, director of the U.S. DoD Office of Net Assessment
• Margaret Mead — U.S. anthropologist
• Douglas Merrill — Former Google CIO & President of EMI's digital music division
• Newton N. Minow — Chairman of the Board, 1970–1972
• Lloyd N. Morrisett — Chairman of the Board, 1986–1995
• John Forbes Nash, Jr. — mathematician, winner of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• John von Neumann — mathematician, pioneer of the modern digital computer
• Allen Newell — artificial intelligence
• Paul O'Neill — Chairman of the Board, 1997–2000
• Edmund Phelps — winner of 2006 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• Arthur E. Raymond — Chief Engineer, Douglas Aircraft Company — RAND founder
• Condoleezza Rice — former intern, former trustee (1991–1997), and former Secretary of State for the United States
• Michael D. Rich — RAND President and Chief Executive Officer, Nov. 1, 2011–present
• Leo Rosten — academic and humorist, helped set up the social sciences division of RAND
• Donald Rumsfeld — Chairman of Board from 1981 to 1986; 1995–1996 and Secretary of Defense for the United States from 1975 to 1977 and 2001 to 2006.
• Robert M. Salter — advocate of the vactrain maglev train concept
• Paul Samuelson — economist, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• Thomas C. Schelling — economist, winner of 2005 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• James Schlesinger — former Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of Energy
• Norman Shapiro — mathematician, co-author of the Rice–Shapiro theorem, MH Email and RAND-Abel co-designer
• Lloyd Shapley — mathematician and game theorist
• Cliff Shaw — inventor of the linked list and co-author of the first artificial intelligence program
• Abram Shulsky — former Director of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans
• Herbert Simon — award-winning psychologist
• James P Smith Health Economist
• Frank Stanton — Chairman of the Board, 1961–1967
• James Steinberg — Deputy National Security Advisor to Bill Clinton
• Peter Szanton — Policy analyst and former head of RAND operations in New York City
• James Thomson — RAND president and CEO, 1989–Oct. 31, 2011
• William H. Webster — Chairman of the Board, 1959–1960
• Albert Wohlstetter — Mathematician and Cold-War Strategist
• Roberta Wohlstetter — Policy analyst and military historian
• Ratan Tata — Chairman of Tata Sons
• Oliver Williamson — economist

Over the last 60 years, more than 30 Nobel Prize winners have been involved or associated with the RAND Corporation at some point in their careers.