Dr. Andrew L. Ross joined the University of New Mexico as Director of the Office for Policy, Security &Technology and Professor of Political Science in September 2005.
From 2000-2005, he was a Research Professor in the Strategic Research Department (SRD) of the U.S. Naval War College's Center for Naval Warfare Studies, serving as the Department’s Director of Studies from 2002-2004. Dr. Ross was the Director of the Naval War College's project on "Military Transformation and the Defense Industry After Next" and during the 2001-2002 academic year served as the Acting Director of the College's Advanced Research Program and as Co-Leader of the College's Strategy Task Group, one of four task groups established to support the Chief of Naval Operations in the global war on terror. His work with the Strategy Task Group led to a Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service award in September 2002. From 1989 to 2000, Dr. Ross served as first a Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow and then a Professor of National Security Affairs in the Naval War College 's National Security Decision Making Department, where he taught the College's core course on Strategy and Force Planning.
His work on U.S. grand strategy, national security and defense planning, regional security, weapons proliferation, and security and economics has appeared in numerous journals and books. Professor Ross is the editor of The Political Economy of Defense: Issues and Perspectives (1991) and co-editor of three editions of Strategy and Force Planning (1995, 1997, 2000). He is currently writing a book on military transformation.
Dr. Ross has held research fellowships at Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, the University of Illinois , and the Naval War College ; he also taught in the Political Science Departments of the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky .
He earned his MA and PhD at Cornell University and his BA, summa cum laude, at American University . 
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Dr. Hagengruber serves as Director Emeritus of the Office for Policy, Security & Technology. He is a research professor of Political Science and an adjunct assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNM. He has been associated with UNM since 1975.
He was formerly a senior vice president at Sandia National Laboratories. He spent much of his 30-year career at Sandia in arms control and non-proliferation activities including several tours in Geneva as a negotiator. In recent years, he has focused on the nuclear transition in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and in security issues associated with counter-terrorism. He has chaired or served on numerous panels that have addressed these areas. He has traveled widely including many visits to Russia where he led the large interactive program between Sandia and the FSU.
He has a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Wisconsin and is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
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