Susan L. Marquis

Susan L. Marquis is dean of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has held this position since January 1, 2009. She is also the vice president for innovation at RAND Corporation. She is chair of the advisory council for the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Marquis received her Master’s in Public and International Affairs and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. She served as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Requirements, and Assessment for the U.S. Navy and also worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Marquis was later vice president and corporate officer at LMI, a not-for-profit government consulting firm. She was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Fox Leadership Institution, University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Marquis is a founding member of the Board of Directors, Economics of National Security Association.

Her current research focus is the Fair Food Program and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. She is the author of Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces (1997) and the forthcoming book on the CIW, I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won, to be published by Cornell University Press in December 2017.