Rebecca Grant to Address Energy Advocates

Arlington, VA, November 13, 2002 – Dr. Rebecca Grant will be the guest speaker at the Energy Advocates luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on November 19, 2002, in the Adams Mark Hotel, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Grant will speak on “Oil and Airpower.”

Grant is president of IRIS Independent Research in Washington, D.C., and a fellow of the Eaker Institute for Aerospace Concepts, the public policy and research arm of the Air Force Association’s Aerospace Education Foundation—an affiliate of the Air Force Association. AEF is dedicated to ensuring America’s aerospace excellence through public awareness programs, education and financial assistance. Grant is also a contributing editor to Air Force Magazine, the journal of the Air Force Association. Her professional research interests center on joint doctrine and airpower employment in joint campaigns.

Recent IRIS Independent Research projects include a study of the F-22, analysis of Operation Allied Force and a report on innovation processes in the Department of Defense. She is the author of The Afghan Air War (2002), The B-2 Goes to War (2001) and The Radar Game (1999), as well as several magazine articles on aspects of aerospace power.

Previously, Dr. Grant worked in the operations group of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and also for the Secretary of the Air Force. Her portfolio included strategic force reductions, bomber programs, assessing logistics costs and the Air Force Roles and Missions project of 1994. She began her career with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

Trained in the field of international relations, she received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1985 and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, University of London in 1989. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

The Air Force Association is an independent, nonprofit, civilian organization promoting public understanding of aerospace power and the pivotal role it plays in the security of the nation. AFA has more than 250 chapters nationwide and overseas, and more than 140,000 members.

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Contact: Napoleon Byars, Director of Policy and Communications, The Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Hwy, Arlington, VA 22209, 703.247.5850, email: nbyars@afa.org.