Academics

Meet the Faculty

Gregory F. Treverton, Ph.D.
John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2002-2003
Acting President and Director of Studies, Pacific Council on International Policy
Senior Policy Analyst, RAND

Office: School of Public Policy (SPP)
Phone: (310) 393-0411 x7122
E-mail: gregt@rand.org

• Ph.D., Harvard University
• B.A., Princeton University

Gregory Treverton is a senior policy analyst at RAND, where he formerly directed the International Security and Defense Policy Center, and is the associate dean for research at the RAND Graduate School.

His fields of expertise include intelligence and United States foreign relations with Europe, Japan, and Korea. His special interest includes the study of new forms of public-private partnership, where his work ranges across government and private sector sponsors.

He recently completed two years building the Pacific Council on International Policy, an initiative rooted in the American west to bring together leaders interested in international matters and their impacts on domestic affairs. At the Pacific Council, Treverton served as vice president, director of studies, president, and currently as a senior fellow. At RAND, he directed the International Security and Defense Policy Center.

Before joining RAND, Treverton served as the vice chair of the National Intelligence Council, overseeing the writing of America's National Intelligence Estimates. He has been senior fellow and director of the Europe-America project and of the project on America's Task in a Changed World at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

He taught public management and foreign policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, has been an adjunct professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and served as director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

Treverton received a PhD in economics and politics and an MPP from Harvard University as well as an AB, summa cum laude, from Princeton University.

Courses:

• MPP 664 National Security and Freedom

Academic Interests:

• Defense Policy
• Government
• International Policy
• International Relations
• National Intelligence
• National Security
• Pacific Studies
• Technology Policy