Susan L. Marquis

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Susan L. Marquis
BornFebruary 14, 1960
Brevard County, Florida
EducationBA from Rutgers University
MPA and PhD from Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
OccupationDean, Professor
EmployerFrederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School and RAND Corporation
TitleFrank and Marcia Carlucci Dean (Pardee RAND); Vice President for Innovation (RAND)
PredecessorJohn Graham
Websitehttps://www.prgs.edu/dean.html

Susan L. Marquis is the Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School. She has held this position since January 1, 2009.[1] She is also the vice president for innovation at RAND Corporation.[2] She is chair of the advisory council for the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.[3]

Marquis received her Master’s in Public and International Affairs and Ph.D. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School). 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 a non-resident senior fellow at the Fox Leadership Institution, University of Pennsylvania.[4] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations[5] and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Marquis is a founding member of the Board of Directors, Economics of National Security Association[6] and served on the U.S. Navy’s Board of Advisors to the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College.

Her current research focus is the Fair Food Program and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.[7][8] She is the author of Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces (1997) and a book on the CIW, I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won, published by Cornell University Press in December 2017.[9] She has discussed her book and the CIW at the Aspen Institute in February 2018 and at the L.A. Times Festival of Books in April 2018.[10][11] She has also penned commentaries relating the topic to other current news, such as the #MeToo movement.[12][13]

Early in her career, Marquis was active in the Washington, D.C., music scene, managing The Slickee Boys, DJing at the original 9:30 Club, and promoting straight-edge punk concerts.

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