Matan Chorev Appointed VP and Director of RAND's Global and Emerging Risks Division

For Release

ThursdayMarch 12, 2026

Matan Chorev

National security and foreign policy expert Matan Chorev has been appointed vice president and director of RAND's Global and Emerging Risks Division (GER), effective immediately. Chorev joined RAND in March 2025 as a senior policy researcher and deputy director of GER.

RAND Global and Emerging Risks brings together the world's leading experts, scholars, technologists, strategists, and practitioners to help decisionmakers understand, anticipate, and prepare to navigate the national security and geopolitical implications of consequential challenges to civilization and global security, including the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, the biotechnology revolution, a transforming climate, and intensified strategic competition. It is home to the Center for AI, Security, and Technology, Center for the Geopolitics of Artificial General Intelligence, China Research Center, and RAND's international chairs, as well as its Forecasting Initiative and work on decisionmaking under deep uncertainty.