{{Short description|American national security expert}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jason Matheny |image = Jason Matheny, IARPA Director.jpg |office = President and CEO of RAND Corporation |term_start = July 5, 2022 |term_end = |predecessor = Michael D. Rich |successor = |birth_name = Jason Gaverick Matheny |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = |education = University of Chicago (BA)<br />Duke University (MBA)<br />Johns Hopkins University (MPH, PhD) |module = {{Infobox scientist | child = yes | thesis_year = 2013 | thesis_title = The Economics of Pharmaceutical Development: Costs, Risks, and Incentives | thesis_url = https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/37064/MATHENY-DISSERTATION-2013.pdf | doctoral_advisor = Bradley Herring}} }} '''Jason Gaverick Matheny''' is an American national security expert who has been president and CEO of the RAND Corporation since July 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Monica |first1=1776 Main Street Santa |last2=California 90401-3208 |title=Jason Matheny Named President and CEO of RAND Corporation |url=https://www.rand.org/news/press/2022/06/07.html |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=www.rand.org |language=en}}</ref> He was previously a senior appointee in the Biden administration from March 2021 to June 2022. He served as deputy assistant to the president for technology and national security, deputy director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and coordinator for technology and national security at the White House National Security Council.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-09|title=Jason Matheny to serve Biden White House in national security and tech roles|url=https://www.fedscoop.com/white-house-announces-top-tech-adviser-jason-matheny-national-security/|access-date=2021-05-18|website=FedScoop|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dille|first=Grace|date=2021-03-11|title=Former IARPA Head Lands Three New White House Tech Roles|url=https://www.meritalk.com/articles/former-iarpa-head-lands-three-new-white-house-tech-roles/|access-date=2021-05-18|website=www.meritalk.com}}</ref>
Matheny previously was the founding director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, to which he was appointed by Congress in 2018.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Jason Matheny|url=https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/jason-matheny/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518074741/https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/jason-matheny/|archive-date=2021-05-18|access-date=2021-05-18|website=Center for Security and Emerging Technology|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Daily Digest | website = congress.gov | date = November 14, 2018 | url = https://www.congress.gov/115/crec/2018/11/14/CREC-2018-11-14-pt1-PgD1171.pdf | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> Previously he was an assistant director of national intelligence, and director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).<ref name=":0" /> Matheny has had ties with the Effective Altruist movement.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g05om2NJwco |title=Effective altruism in government {{!}} Jason Matheny |date=2017-06-18 |last=Centre for Effective Altruism |access-date=2024-06-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Matheny grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/110835038/ | title=The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky on June 10, 1992 · Page 53| date=June 10, 1992}}</ref> He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1996, where he majored in art history.<ref name="chicago">{{cite magazine |title=Future fillet |url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0906/features/future_fillet.shtml |first=Josh |last=Schonwald |magazine=University of Chicago Magazine |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131016071000/http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0906/features/future_fillet.shtml |archive-date=October 16, 2013 |access-date=March 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Alumni |publisher=Department of Art History, Division of the Humanities, The University of Chicago |url=https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/alumni |access-date=March 16, 2018 |quote=1995-96 ... Jason Matheny}}</ref> He obtained an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2003,<ref name="tri"/><ref>{{cite news |quote=Jason Gaverick Matheny MBA '03 Director of IARPA, Washington, DC. |title=Happy Birthday! |url=https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/alumni/newsletters/2015/august/birthdays_082015/ |publisher=Fuqua School of Business |access-date=March 16, 2018 |archive-date=September 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929074458/http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/alumni/newsletters/2015/august/birthdays_082015/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2004.<ref name="chicago"/> He spent six months in India evaluating the efficacy of the HIV-prevention Avahan project, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.<ref name="Shapiro2018">{{cite book|author=Paul Shapiro|title=Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-B0yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT44|date=2 January 2018|publisher=Gallery Books|isbn=978-1-5011-8910-4|page=44}}</ref><ref name="chicago"/> He received a PhD in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University.<ref name="tri">{{Triangulation|276|Jason Matheny}}</ref> His doctoral dissertation is titled: "The Economics of Pharmaceutical Development: Costs, Risks, and Incentives".<ref name="phd">{{cite web |title=The Economics of Pharmaceutical Development: Costs, Risks, and Incentives |first=Jason Gaverick |last=Matheny |url=https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/37064/MATHENY-DISSERTATION-2013.pdf?sequence=1 |date=September 2013 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University}}</ref>
==Career== Matheny joined IARPA in 2009, working as a program manager for the Aggregative Contingent Estimation Program and the Open Source Indicators Program.<ref name="phd"/><ref name="bb">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/demystifying-the-black-box-that-is-ai/ |magazine=Scientific American |title=Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI |first=Ariel |last=Bleicher |date=August 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809160258/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/demystifying-the-black-box-that-is-ai/ |archive-date=August 9, 2017 |quote=When Jason Matheny joined the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as a program manager in 2009, he made a habit of chatting to the organization's research analysts.}}</ref><ref name="Prensky2012">{{cite book|author=Marc Prensky|title=Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YM-00xBevvcC&pg=PA260|date=7 August 2012|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-137-09317-2|page=260 |quote=The ACE program manager is Jason Matheny}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Washingtonian |quote=The problem, says Jason Matheny, who started a program at IARPA called Aggregative Contingent Estimation, is that 'people who have the traditional markers of expertise are typically not the most accurate forecasters.' |title=US Agencies Are Using the Web to Pick Our Brains |first=Keegan |last=Hamilton |date=January 8, 2015 |url=https://washingtonian.com/2015/01/08/us-agencies-are-using-the-web-to-pick-our-brains/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://mail.sjdm.org/pipermail/jdm-society/2011-July/004906.html |publisher=Society for Judgment and Decision Making |title=IARPA Open Source Indicators (OSI) Program: Proposers' Day Conference, August 3, 2011 |date=July 2, 2011 |first=Jason Gaverick |last=Matheny |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180317024932/http://mail.sjdm.org/pipermail/jdm-society/2011-July/004906.html |archive-date=March 17, 2018 |access-date=March 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> After working as a program manager, he was an associate office director, office director, and director.<ref name=iarpa-bio />
Prior to joining IARPA, Matheny was director of research at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, where his work focused on existential risks.<ref>Jason G. Matheny (2007): "Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction", Risk Analysis 27(5): 1335-1344. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2007.00960.x/abstract</ref>
He has also held positions at the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity, the Seva Foundation, and Princeton University, and has co-chaired the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, which authored the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, released by the White House in October 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan|url=https://www.nitrd.gov/PUBS/national_ai_rd_strategic_plan.pdf|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="iarpa-bio" /><ref name="chicago" />
Besides his work on emerging technologies and catastrophic risks, Matheny is recognized for having popularized the concept of cultured meat, after co-authoring a paper<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Edelman|first=PD|date=3 May 2005|title=Commentary: In Vitro-Cultured Meat Productionsystem|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7746539 |journal=Tissue Engineering|volume=11|issue=5–6|pages=659–662|doi=10.1089/ten.2005.11.659|pmid=15998207|access-date=8 April 2018|citeseerx=10.1.1.179.588}}</ref> on cultured meat production in the early 2000s and founding New Harvest, the world's first non-profit organization dedicated to supporting in vitro meat research.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Schonwald |first=Josh |date=May 2009 |url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0906/features/future_fillet.shtml |title=Future Fillet |magazine=The University of Chicago Magazine }}</ref>
==Recognition== Matheny's work was called one of the "ideas of the year" by ''The New York Times'', and he was named one of ''Foreign Policy''{{'}}s top 100 global thinkers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Global Thinkers 2017|url=https://gt.foreignpolicy.com/2017/|website=Foreign Policy|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>
Matheny is a member of the National Academies' Intelligence Community Studies Board,<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = About the Intelligence Community Studies Board | url = https://www.nationalacademies.org/icsb/about | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the National Academies' Committee on Science and Innovation Leadership for the 21st Century,<ref>{{cite web | title = Science and Innovation Leadership for the 21st Century: Challenges and Strategic Implications for the United States | website = The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | url = https://www8.nationalacademies.org/pa/projectview.aspx?key=51225 | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the Department of Commerce Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committee,<ref>{{cite web | title = Department of Commerce Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committee | website = American Institute of Physics | url = https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/aipcorp/images/fyi/pdf/ettac-members-at-may-meeting-2020.pdf | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the Department of Energy AIML Working Group,<ref>{{cite web | title = Preliminary findings of the SEAB to Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette regarding the Department of Energy and Artificial Intelligence | website = Department of Energy | date = March 12, 2020 | url = https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/04/f73/SEAB%20AI%20WG%20PRELIMINARY%20FINDINGS_0.pdf | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,<ref>{{cite web | title = About the Intelligence Community Studies Board | website = The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | url = https://www.aaas.org/page/committee-science-engineering-and-public-policy | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the Nuclear Threat Initiative Science and Technology Advisory Group,<ref>{{cite web | title = Board & Advisors | website = Nuclear Threat Initiative | url = https://www.nti.org/about/board-and-advisors | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the Center for a New American Security Task Force on AI and National Security,<ref>{{cite web | title = Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security | website = Center for a New American Security | date = | url = https://www.cnas.org/ai-task-force | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Encryption Working Group,<ref>{{cite web | title = Encryption Working Group | website = Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | url = https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/technology/cyber/encryption | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190511062905/https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/technology/cyber/encryption | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 11, 2019 | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> and is a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Affiliated Advisers and Experts (Non-Resident) | website = Center for Strategic & International Studies | url = https://www.csis.org/affiliated-advisers-and-experts-non-resident | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref> He is a recipient of the Intelligence Community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology, the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.<ref name=iarpa-bio>{{cite web|title=Jason Matheny, IARPA|url=https://www.iarpa.gov/images/bios/Matheny_Bio.pdf|accessdate=4 April 2018|archive-date=October 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018131207/https://www.iarpa.gov/images/bios/Matheny_Bio.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/jason-matheny/ CSET bio]
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