Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation

Dr. Chalk is a Policy Analyst working in the Project Airforce and National Security Divisions of the RAND Corporation, a Washington D.C. think-tank. During the past year he has worked on projects examining unconventional security threats in Southeast Asia, new strategic challenges for the U.S. Airforce in Latin America and evolving trends in national and international terrorism. Prior to joing RAND, Dr. Chalk was an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He has also acted as a research consultant in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Austrialia.  Dr. Chalk will discuss the threat to the world’s food supply arising from bioterrorism and agroterrorism acts. His most recent book, published by MacMillan in 1996, is titled, “Non-Military Security and Global Disorder: The Impact of Extremism, Violence, and Chaos on National and International Security.”