RAND hires Wormuth

Christine Wormuth, who served as under secretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration, has been named director of RAND Corp.'s International Security and Defense Policy Center.

Wormuth also previously was deputy under secretary of defense for strategy, plans and forces, special assistant to the president and senior director for defense at the National Security Council and principal deputy assistant secretary for homeland defense, all during the Obama administration.

She joins RAND from the Atlantic Council. She has also previously worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.