Speaker: Jim Mitre (RAND Global and Emerging Risks)
Date: 10 June 2025
Speaker Session Summary
Forthcoming!
Speaker Session Recording
Also forthcoming!
Briefing Materials
Biography: Jim Mitre is the inaugural vice president and director of RAND Global and Emerging Risks, which delivers rigorous and objective public policy research on the most consequential challenges to civilization and global security. Mitre previously served as the director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Program. Before joining RAND, Mitre spent over a decade serving in multiple roles in the Department of Defense where he had responsibility for defense strategy, strategic analysis, scenario development, and force planning. He served as a senior advisor to the deputy secretary of defense for data and artificial intelligence, principal director and acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, and as the executive director of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Mitre was a presidential management fellow in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and served in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Nairobi, Kenya. Mitre has also spent time in the private sector as the chief strategy officer at Govini, an early-stage national security technology company, and, at the onset of his career, co-founded a private counterterrorism research organization, the SITE Institute. Mitre holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan Business School.
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