Design of the Qatar National Research Fund: An Overview of the Study Approach and Key Recommendations (Technical Report

by Victoria A. Greenfield, Debra Knopman, Eric Talley

This report documents the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute1s recommendations in 2004 to the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development for the design and business and implementation plans for its Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). For the design and plans, the authors tailored the best practices of various institutions to the foundation1s vision for QNRF and to Qatar1s needs, challenges, and opportunities.

88 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2007

About the author

Victoria Greenfield is a senior economist at RAND and a faculty affiliate with the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She specializes in national security, transnational crime, and international socio-economic issues, advising government agencies on strategy and organizational design. Known for her interdisciplinary approach, she coauthored Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy, published by Oxford University Press. Her work also covers topics such as human and drug trafficking, cyber risks to supply chains, and military economic metrics. Greenfield has held prominent roles at the U.S. Department of State, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the U.S. Naval Academy, and she has contributed to multiple National Academies committees. She earned her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Berkeley.