Senior International and Defense Researcher, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
John Parachini is a senior international and defense researcher at RAND, former director of the RAND Intelligence Policy Center, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.
He recently served in the Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Affairs at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability. His areas of responsibilities were Russia and Ukraine.
Parachini's areas of research at RAND include nuclear, biological and chemical weapons proliferation and arms control, intelligence, counterterrorism, conventional arms trade, strategic warning, and emerging technologies for warfighting and intelligence. He has led RAND projects on chemical and biological weapons terrorism, pandemic response, intelligence, nuclear smuggling, conventional arms trade, Iran, North Korean, open-source Intelligence, and emerging technologies.
He has testified before both houses of Congress and has published articles in the Washington Quarterly, Arms Control Today, RAND Review, The Nonproliferation Review, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Prism, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, USA Today, The National Interest, Asian Military Review, RealClearWorld, RealClearDefense, The Hill, and International Herald Tribune.
Previously, Parachini worked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies' Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Henry L. Stimson Center.
Parachini has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Southern California's Washington Policy Center, and the City University of New York's Baruch College.
He earned an M.A. in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College.
M.B.A., Georgetown University; M.A. in international relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; B.A. in philosophy, Haverford College
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