LARRY HANAUER
Senior International Policy Analyst
The RAND Corporation
Larry Hanauer is a Senior International Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation, where his
research focuses on a range of foreign policy and national security issues.
From March 2005 to October 2010, Hanauer was a senior staff member of the U.S. House of
Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), one of two
congressional committees charged with overseeing the activities of the U.S. Intelligence
Community and authorizing funds for the Community’s sixteen agencies. During the 110th and
111th Congresses (2007-2010), Hanauer served as the Staff Director of the Subcommittee on
Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence, which oversees the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the national security elements
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Defense Department counterintelligence
organizations, and the intelligence components of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
and the Departments of State, Treasury, Energy, and Homeland Security.
Immediately before working for Congress, Hanauer was an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton,
where he worked on intelligence-related projects for CIA, DIA, the National GeospatialIntelligence Agency (NGA), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
From 1995 to 2003, Hanauer was a policy advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
(OSD), during which time he contributed to U.S. defense policy toward Israel, Iraq, Eastern
Europe, and West Africa.
Hanauer received his M.A.L.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and his B.A. in
English, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.