Biography

Dr. Rick Eden is a senior analyst at the RAND Corporation where he has conducted and published research in a wide range of policy areas. He serves as RAND's Associate Director of Research Quality Assurance and is a member of RAND's Institutional Review Board for human subjects research. Before joining RAND, Dr. Eden served on the faculty of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; he has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; California State University, Los Angeles; and the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He received his doctorate from UCLA.

Dr. Eden is a book reviewer for the Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter and a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle.