Senior Political Scientist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Patrick S. Roberts is a senior political scientist at RAND with a focus on public governance and risk and crisis management, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He has substantive expertise in emergency management, intelligence, cybersecurity, emerging technology, and disasters and emergency management. His work helps organizations improve decisionmaking through collaborative and evidence-based processes and navigate risk under conditions of uncertainty.
Roberts is the author of Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected (Cambridge). He has published in a variety of scholarly and popular journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Naval Laboratories, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Social Science Research Council. He serves on the editorial boards of Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy; the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, and the American Review of Public Administration.
He has served as a senior foreign policy advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, funded by a Council on Foreign Relations Stanton International Affairs Fellowship. He has also been the Ghaemian Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Heidelberg Center for American Studies in Germany.
Roberts holds a Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow, one at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and another at the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University.
Ph.D. in government, University of Virginia; M.A. in political science, Claremont Graduate University; B.A. in politics, University of Dallas
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