Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at RAND and a professor at the RAND School of Public Policy. He specializes in international economics, international development, and economics and national security. His RAND research has included international economic competition, and socio-economic policy projects in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. From 2007 to 2008, he was on leave from RAND, serving as a senior economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.