Jonathan P. Caulkins is a non-resident scholar with the Marron Institute of Urban Management. He is also an H. Guyford Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Caulkins specializes in systems analysis of problems pertaining to drugs, crime, terror, violence, and prevention – work that won the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Investigator Award, and the INFORMS President’s Award. Issues surrounding marijuana legalization have been a particular focus in recent years; other interests include optimal control, reputation and brand management, prevention, and black markets. He has taught his quantitative decision making course on four continents to students from 50 countries at every level from undergraduate through Ph.D. and exec ed.

He has authored or co-authored over 125 refereed articles and ten books including Marijuana Legalization (1st edition 2012, 2nd edition 2016, OUP), Drugs and Drug Policy (2011, OUP), Drug Policy and the Public Good. (2010, Oxford) and Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes: With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror (2008, Springer).

He is a past co-director of RAND's Drug Policy Research Center (1994 - 1996), founding Director of RAND’s Pittsburgh office (1999 – 2001), and continues to work through RAND on a variety of government projects.

Dr. Caulkins received a B.S., and M.S. in Systems Science from Washington University, an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Ph.D., in Operations Research both from M.I.T.