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EU Leaders Join RAND Europe's Official Brussels Office Opening — 02 October 2008
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and other EU leaders attended a reception to celebrate the grand opening of RAND Europe's Brussels office.
Martin Roland Joins RAND Europe's Health Research Programme — 08 September 2008
Martin Roland OBE, a leading health services researcher in the United Kingdom, has joined RAND Europe as a special advisor to help develop its health policy research programme. Roland serves as director of both the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre (NPCRDC) at The University of Manchester and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research, where he was a founding Director.
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Philippa Foster Back joins Board Of Trustees — 04 August 2008
Philippa Foster Back OBE, who who has more than 30 years of business experience and has been director of the Institute of Business Ethics since 2001, has joined the RAND Europe Board of Trustees. "Philippa's experience and expertise will make an invaluable contribution to the success of RAND Europe," said RAND Europe President Jonathan Grant of Foster Back's appointment.
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RAND Europe achieves ISO9001:2000 compliance — 15 May 2008
RAND Europe has successfully maintained its ISO9001:2000 certification, after the first year compliance audit. The Assessors were "extremely impressed" with the consistently high standards of business and quality processes, particularly the extensive mechanisms for feedback and organizational learning. Dr Phillipa Towlson, Head of Project Management and Strategic Quality said "With the engagement and commitment of RAND Europe staff we have been successful in embedding the raft of business and quality processes required to create the robust platform on which RAND Europe will go forward."
RAND Europe opens new office in Brussels — 28 April 2008
RAND Europe has opened an office in Brussels, Belgium, to facilitate its growing portfolio of work with Brussels-based policy institutions, including the European Commission (EC).
"This truly demonstrates RAND's commitment to a pan-European focus," said Jonathan Grant, president of RAND Europe. "We can diversify and increase our client base, which enables us to become a larger player in informing European policy making."Spotlight on 2007: RAND Europe Annual Review — 19 February 2008
Spotlight on 2007 encapsulates the work of each of RAND Europe's established teams as well as our emerging areas, and highlights specific projects carried out in 2007 as case studies.
RAND Europe gains coveted ISO certification — 4 June 2007
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), a network of national standards institutes of 157 countries with a central Secretariat in Switzerland, has granted RAND Europe ISO9001:2000 certification. ISO9001:2000 has become an international reference for quality requirements in business and is concerned with "quality management" i.e. what an organization does in order to enhance client satisfaction by meeting client and regulatory requirements. It also seeks to promote the ideal of continuous improvement in performance through learning from past experience.
RAND Europe took the decision to seek ISO9001:2000 certification in response to a growing need to offer clients the reassurance of robust, high quality business processes. Certification places RAND Europe on a comparable footing with a broad range of highly respected organizations in the UK and overseas.
RAND Europe staff inform UK parliamentarians on counter-terrorism — 26 April 2007
A private meeting was held by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation on 26 April 2007 at the House of Commons before an all party group. Lindsay Clutterbuck and Richard Warnes from RAND Europe's Defence and Security team joined Steve Monblatt, Executive Director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), on the panel.
Each of the three panel members gave a brief presentation of thoughts on future counter-terrorism. Discussion followed on the need to respond to the current threat through "re-imagining counter-terrorism," the session's theme. Such a response will involve examination of original and novel counter-terrorist approaches. While more traditional legal, intelligence, policing and military responses might contain this threat in the shorter to medium term, it was suggested that different counter-terrorist approaches were needed to succeed longer term.
The RAND Europe participants argued that while terrorism is becoming an increasingly transnational phenomenon, useful lessons might still be drawn from historical counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist campaigns. Such experience could be transferred in turn, and applied to today's situation.
At the same time, the evolution of global ideological terrorist networks suggests that a possible response might be to include counter-ideology within the wider field of counter-terrorism. This integration could be achieved by expanding community contacts and dialogue, offering theological counters, providing overseas support, and addressing real or perceived grievances. Such initiatives would be taken in an effort to address the root causes of the 'radicalisation' process, thus denying the terrorists access to potential recruits.
The panellist from BASIC posed a number of questions about counter-terrorist strategy, arguing that no government has yet defined a measurable end-state to terrorism, making real progress impossible.
New Director appointed to lead Health and Healthcare team — 27 March 2007
Evi Hatziandreou has recently joined RAND Europe having moved from Athens, Greece, where she has been working as a consultant on various health and healthcare-related projects. She has worked in the United States, for extensive periods, for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Technology Assessment and Battelle. She also was the Corporate Health Economics Director at ASTRA AB (currently AstraZeneca). While at Battelle, she served as interim director of its London office for a year.
She returned to Greece in 1995, when she served for three years as deputy governor of IKA, the largest social security organization in Greece. Evi holds an M.P.H. and a D.P.H. in epidemiology and health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and an M.D. from the University of Athens Medical School.
Her publications cover a number of areas including research and evaluation of public health and health services; and health policy analysis. More recent areas of interest include public-private parternships in health, and the interaction of corporate social responsibility and public health.
RAND Europe announces a new initiative to disseminate research findings — 19 January 2007
REsource notes, which are posted on this site by research topic, present policy-oriented summaries of an individual peer-reviewed document or a body of publsihed work; current or completed work; and innovative research methodologies
RAND Europe presented motorcyling and land use modelling studies at leading international transportation conference — 05 January 2007
As part of the Transportation Research Board annual meeting, held 21-25 January, in Washington, D.C., RAND Europe researchers Peter Burge and Aruna Sivakumar presented findings on several recent transportation-related studies, including Modeling of Motorcycle Ownership and Commuter Use: A UK Study and A Comprehensive, Unified, Framework for Analyzing Spatial Location Choice.
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Jonathan Grant recently appointed President of RAND Europe — 23 October 2006
James A Thomson, President and CEO of RAND Corporation recently appointed Jonathan Grant President of RAND Europe.
RAND Europe consolidates pan-European operations — 23 October 2006
RAND Europe has moved its headquarters for pan-European operations to its office in Cambridge, UK, closing its offices in Berlin and Leiden. The consolidation will provide better service to RAND Europe's public and private sector clients throughout Europe. The not-for-profit research institution's multi-lingual, multi-cultural staff will continue serving clients across Europe in a range of sectors.
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