Terry Kelly

Terrence K. "Terry" Kelly is a Senior Researcher with the RAND Corporation, where his primary research areas are national and homeland security policy. He was a member of the Strategic Assessment Group for GEN Stanley McChrystal, reviewing the situation in the Afghanistan War (2001-) and proposing new alternatives.

From February 2006 to April 2007, he served as the Director of the Joint Strategic Planning and Assessment Office for the U.S. Mission to Iraq. In 2004, he was the Director for Militia Transition and Reintegration Programs for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

He served as the Senior National Security Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was a White House Fellow and served as the Chief of Staff of the National Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office.

He has held faculty positions in West Point's System Engineering Department and the Mathematical Sciences Department (visiting) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Security Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Public Policy and Management.

Education

 * M.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering and Ph.D. in Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 * Masters in Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College
 * B.S., United States Military Academy (1982)