Initial Job Placements of Recent Pardee RAND Graduates

2022

We will update this list as additional job information becomes available.

Applied Research Analyst
Department of Health and Human Services, Data, Analytics, Research & Development
Washington, DC

Associate Engineer
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA

Associate Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA

Contractor
World Bank
Washington, DC

Director, Defense & National Security Accounts
Starburst Aerospace Defense
El Segundo, CA

Economist
World Bank
Washington, DC

Fellow in Governance Studies
Brookings Institution
Washington, DC

Founder
Edge Real Estate Investment Ventures

Health Policy Researcher
World Bank
Washington, DC

Intelligence Officer Training
U.S. Air Force
San Angelo, Texas

Lead Faculty for Public Policy
Yseali Academy, Fulbright University Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Operations Research Analyst
NASA, Strategic Investment Division
Los Angeles, CA

Pilot
US Air Force
Wichita Falls, TX

Post Doctorate Fellow
Boston University Global Development Center
Boston, MA

Principal
Underscore Research
Orange County, CA

Public Health Associate
Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA

Research Economist
Banco de México, Directorate of Macrofinancial Risk Analysis
Mexico City, Mexico

Research Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Researcher and Project Lead
Imaginative Futures

Senior Analyst
Abt Associates
Rockville, MD

Senior Associate
EY Infrastructure Advisors
Los Angeles, CA

Senior Economist
Compass Lexecon
Chicago, IL

Social Science Researcher
Medicare
San Francisco, CA

Trust and Safety Consumer Insights Manager
Match Group

Vice President
Tusk Strategies
Los Angeles, CA

2021

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Verantos

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Addiction Studies
Public Administration Department, Penn State Harrisburg
Harrisburg, PA

Associate Fellow
Office of Evaluation Sciences, Government Services Administration
Washington, DC

Consultant
Anthro-Tech

Manager
Cyber Commercial, Deloitte
Los Angeles, CA

Research Analyst
Special Activities and Intelligence, CNA
Arlington, VA

Research Assistant Professor
Price School, Schaeffer Center, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Senior Research Specialist
International Affairs, Communication, and Journalism, USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Los Angeles, CA

2020

Associate Policy Researcher and Co-Director
Center for Gaming, RAND Corporation
Washington, DC

Associate Principal
Imaginative Future
Grand Rapids, MI

Data Scientist
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
Sacramento, CA

Data Scientist
Division of Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank
Washington, DC

Fellow, Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Founder
Knegotiations

Founder
SFD Research
Washington, DC

Monitoring and Results Specialist
Caribbean Development Bank
Bridgetown, Barbados

Pilot
Air Education and Training Command
San Antonio, TX

Post Doctorate Fellow
Princeton School of Public & International Affairs
Princeton, NJ

Research Associate
World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University
Helsinki, Finland

Research Fellow
Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Senior Project Engineer
Space Security and Defense Program, Aerospace Corporation
Colorado Springs, CO

Strategic Planner
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower & Reserve Affairs), U.S. Army
Arlington, VA

2019

Adjunct Faculty
Business Administration Division, Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA

Acquisition Officer
Space and Missile Systems Center, United States Air Force
El Segundo, CA

Analytics Consultant and Machine Learning Research Scientist
Self-Employed

Operations Research Officer
Air Force Warfighting Integration Center, United States Air Force
Washington, DC

Senior Fellow
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Seattle, WA

Data Scientist
In-Q-Tel
Arlington, VA

Associate
Analysis Group
Los Angeles, CA

Data Scientist
FAIR
Santa Monica, CA

Assistant Professor
Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Postdoctoral Fellow
Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Manager
Global Health Economics, Amgen
Los Angeles, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA

2018

Associate Research Economist
Precision Health Economics
Oakland, CA

Consultant
World Health Organization

Contracting Officer
U.S. Air Force
Yokota Air Base, Japan

Cost Estimating Analyst
Northrop Grumman
Redondo Beach, CA

Data Scientist
KPMG

Economist
IDinsight
San Francisco, CA

Entrepreneur/Consultant
Vertex Evaluation and Research LLC
Austin, TX

Independent Researcher
Open Philanthropy Project
Washington, DC

Management Fellow
Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs
Los Angeles, CA

Operations Research Analyst
U.S. Air Force
Edwards AFB, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty
Washington, DC

Postdoctoral Fellow
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy
Los Angeles, CA

Prevention Effectiveness Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Global Health
Atlanta, GA

Professor
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Quito, Ecuador

Research Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Research Associate
National Laboratory of Public Policy
Mexico City, Mexico

Senior Research Associate
The Bail Project
Venice, CA

2017

Air Mobility Command Studies and Analysis Directorate
United States Air Force
Scott AFB, IL

Associate Director
Health Economics and Market Access, BluePath Solutions
Los Angeles, CA

Data Scientist
Stabilitas
Seattle, WA

Data Scientist
ThriveHive
Quincy, MA

Director of Global Health Economics
Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA

Fellow
World Bank Young Professonals Program
Washington, DC

Health Economics Manager
Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA

Law Student
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Evanston, IL

Manager
Castalia Strategic Advisors
Washington, DC

Math Instructor and Instructor Pilot
United States Air Force Academy
Boulder, CO

Methodologist
Doctor Evidence, LLC
Santa Monica, CA

Policy Analyst
United States Air Force

Post-Graduate Fellow
Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences
Berkeley, CA

Prevention Effectiveness Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Denver, CO

Program Director for Research Science
New York-Presbyterian/Weil Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY

Research Scientist
Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Researcher
Information Society Policy Research Center, Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Administration
Seoul, Korea

Senior Engineer
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA

Visiting Assistant Professor
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, NM

2016

Air Force Officer (Student Pilot)
Air Education and Training Command, United States Air Force

Analyst
U.S. Department of Defense
Washington, DC

Assistant Professor; Associate Director
Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Associate Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA

Combat Rescue Officer
Air Combat Command, United States Air Force

Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
Los Angeles, CA

Cyber Strategy Lead
Air Force Research Laboratory - Information Directorate, United States Air Force

Data Science Fellow
Insight Data Science
Palo Alto, CA

Independent Research Consultant
Pittsburgh, PA

People Analytics
Facebook
Palo Alto, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center - Cyber Security Project
Cambridge, MA

Profesor Investigador
School of Government, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Monterrey, Mexico

Research Analyst
Milken Institute
Santa Monica, CA

Statistician
National Guard Bureau, Readiness Center
Arlington, VA

Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, GA

2015

Air Force Officer (Pilot)
U.S. Air Force

Associate Consultant
McKinsey & Co.
New York, NY

Associate Policy Analyst
RAND
Santa Monica, CA

Branch Chief, A9A Analyses and Assessments
U.S. Air Force

Data Analyst Consultant
IDEA Public Schools
Weslaco, TX

Economist
Millennium Challenge Corp.
Washington, DC

Executive Director of Analytical Leadership
Office of Accountability and Assessments, Oklahoma State Department of Education
Oklahoma City, OK

Institutional Research Associate
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA

Medical Student
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Mixed Methods Researcher
Results for Development Institute
Washington, DC

Program Manager, Space & Missiles Systems Center
U.S. Air Force

Research Analyst
El Camino College
Torrance, CA

Research Associate
Center for Health, Policy and Management, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Research Associate
Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Research Programmer
Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Social Science Analyst
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Washington, DC

Special Tactics Officer
U.S. Air Force

2014

Algorithm and R&D Scientist Engineer
American International Group (AIG)
New York, NY

Associate Economist
Precision Health
Boston, MA

Associate Economist
Visa
San Mateo/Foster City, CA

Associate Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA

Economics Affairs Officer
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Santiago, Chile

Jet Pilot Trainee
United States Air Force

Junior Economist
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Paris, France

Manager, Analytics and Strategy
One Acre Fund
Nairobi, Kenya

Manager of Industry Analytics
Genentech
South San Francisco, CA

Pilot Trainee
United States Air Force

Policy Researcher
Abu Dhabi Police
United Arab Emirates

Policy Officer
European Commission
Brussels, Belgium

Postdoctoral Fellow
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, CO

Research Associate
Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Research Associate, Modeling and Simulation
Evidera, Ltd.
Lexington, MA

Research Manager and Evaluation Specialist
Institute for Financial Management and Research LEAD (Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development)
Chennai, India

Research Programmer
Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Senior Quantitative Associate
Social Policy Research Associates
Oakland, CA

Senior Researcher
Kohelet Policy Reform
Jerusalem, Israel

Strategic Data Fellow (Harvard Center for Education Policy Research)
Education Northwest
Portland, OR

Strategic Planner
Northrup Grumman Corporation
Falls Church, VA

Visiting Associate Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Visiting Research Fellow
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

2013

Staff Researcher, Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana, IL

Operations Research Analyst
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Pentagon
Arlington, VA

Staff Economist
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Washington, DC

Prevention Effectiveness Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

Air Pollution Specialist
State of California Air Resources Board
Sacramento, CA

Teutsch Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

Economist Consultant, South Asian Human Development, Education Unit
The World Bank Group
Washington, DC

Fiscal and Policy Analyst
California Legislative Analyst’s Office
Sacramento, CA

Mathematician
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA

Combat Rescue Officer Trainee
United States Air Force
Las Vegas, NV

Quantitative Consultant
Corporate Executive Board Company
Arlington, VA

Senior Economic Analyst
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
New York, NY

Assistant Professor, Security Studies
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX