By Daily Press staff
The featured speaker at RAND’s commencement will be Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden, who will speak about the challenges of building stable states around the world in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and in parts of Africa. Bildt has worked on behalf of the European Union and the United Nations to settle conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
Commencement ceremonies will be held for the Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious public policy training schools.
PRGS was founded in 1970 as one of America’s original eight graduate programs in public policy and remains the only one based at a think tank. The interdisciplinary doctorate in policy analysis offered by the school is designed to train creative thinkers to play important roles in solving major problems facing the world. Students get the opportunity to work alongside top RAND researchers on a broad range of projects as part of their on-the-job training.
Twenty-four Ph.D. candidates will receive their doctoral degrees during the ceremonies. Graduates have moved on to leading positions in government, academia and the private sector.
The commencement ceremony will take place Saturday, June 24, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the RAND Corporation, located at 1776 Main St. in Santa Monica.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 21, 2006. Read the original PDF.