Eric Robinson Email and Phone Number

Eric Robinson is a senior research programmer and analyst at the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC. His research focuses primarily on special operations forces, irregular warfare and gray zone challenges, and developing economies, with a frequent emphasis on employing statistical and computational methods to reduce uncertainty in complex environments. He leads research primarily for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and various components of U.S. Special Operations Command.He also serves as the Associate Director of RAND's Research Programming Group – a team of data science, software engineering, and statistical analytics practitioners conducting data-driven analysis across RAND’s multidisciplinary research agenda. He previously served as a civil servant and policy advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC). In this role, he led a team focused on efforts to reorient special operations forces towards gray zone and irregular warfare challenges from China and Russia. He previously served as an embedded RAND advisor to the Special Operations Joint Task Force – Afghanistan (SOJTF-A) in Kabul, and as an advanced analytics consultant with IBM Federal in Washington, D.C.