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Spotlight Interview

The RAND Institute for Civil Justice occasionally interviews key policy makers, ICJ board members, and leading researchers to provide insights into how decisions are made and the influences on policy. Please choose from the selection below to read previous interviews.

Susan Gates

Supporting Entrepreneurship

Susan M. Gates is a senior economist at RAND with a special interest in entrepreneurship, public-sector leadership, and strategic workforce management. She is the Director of Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and co-editor (with Kristin Leuschner) of In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Businesses. Susan's current research is focused on understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship and the U.S. health insurance system. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Robert Lempert

How Do You Make Policies and Decisions When the Future Is Deeply Uncertain?

Robert Lempert is an expert in science and technology policy, with a special focus in climate change, energy, and the environment. An internationally known scholar in the field of decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Science's Climate Research Committee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is now completing a study on the Federal role in terrorism insurance and is leading a large, multiyear effort funded by the National Science Foundation on improving decisionmaking under uncertainty.
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