Michael D. Rich
President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND Corporation
Michael D. Rich is president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. For more than 40 years, Rich has helped RAND become a leading source of expertise, analysis, and evidence-based ideas in an increasingly complex and polarized policymaking environment.
As president and CEO, Rich’s focus is on extending the impact of RAND’s work. He challenges the organization to broaden its legacy of innovation and strengthen the many ways RAND helps decision makers stay ahead of the curve on the issues that matter most. A champion of RAND’s commitment to help improve the quality of decision making, Rich coauthored a 2018 report titled Truth Decay, the first in an ongoing series of research projects and publications that examines how the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life has caused an erosion of civil discourse and political paralysis, among other problems.