Jim Marrone is an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS. His research spans many national security topics, from extremism and foreign information operations to military recruitment, disaster relief, and black markets. Recent research he has focused on elucidating Russian disinformation tactics and domestic extremist financing strategies. He has also designed experiments to test the effectiveness of counter-messaging interventions in several countries, and has led work examining the link between black markets and terrorist financing in the Middle East. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
At the Summit
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
