# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-d-rich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:01:49.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-d-rich"
name: "Michael D. Rich"
slug: "michael-d-rich"
description: "Michael D. Rich is President Emeritus at RAND Corporation. Rich was the fifth president and CEO of the Santa Monica, California-based research institution, succeeding James A. Thomson, who had led RAND from 1989 to 2011. Rich was appointed as President and CEO in November 2011 and served in that role until his retirement in 2022. Rich was succeeded by current RAND President and CEO Jason Gaverick Matheny."
tagline: "American businessman"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           37.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.544097333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  39
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Rich"
    title: "Michael D. Rich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16735177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations