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James A. Dewar ’66 J FREDERICK S. PARDEE PROFESSOR OF LONG-TERM POLICY ANALYSIS, PARDEE RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL


James Dewar is the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Long-Term Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He founded the RAND Fred- erick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. Dewar and his co-authors won the Military Operations Research Society’s highest award, the Rist Prize, for their paper on “Non-Monotonicity, Chaos and Combat Models.” He has done strategic planning at the RAND Corporation for military and other govern- mental organizations, colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies and a wide range of other clients. He also led the development and applica- tion of Assumption-Based Planning (ABP), a tool for reducing avoidable surprises, and is author of a book on the topic. Dewar has spoken and published widely on strategic planning, planning methodologies, the long-range future and plan- ning under uncertainty. Dewar’s B.S. degree is in mathematics. He has a master’s and Ph.D. in math- ematics from the University of Southern California.


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