Lawrence Lewis, Ph.D.

What I've found at CNA is that, through research and support, [you give] senior leaders in the military and in the government a different way to think about their problems, so they can solve their problems.

As a research analyst and field representative for CNA’s Operations Evaluation Group, Dr. Larry Lewis works on joint operations issues.

Dr. Lewis analyzes real world operations as the project lead and primary author for many of DOD's Joint Lessons Learned studies on Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Most recently, he served as the lead analyst for several studies on civilian casualties, and as lead analyst and co-author (with Ms. Sarah Sewall at Harvard University) for the Joint Civilian Casualty Study (JCCS) in support of GEN Petraeus, GEN McChrystal, and ADM Olson (SOCOM). GEN Petraeus described JCCS as "the first comprehensive assessment of the problem of civilian protection." He also led three studies performed in support of GEN Petraeus, addressing High Value Targeting and ISR, urban operations in Iraq, and the Coalition strategy against Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Dr. Lewis is also a subject matter expert on the subjects of Joint interoperability, Combat ID, and fratricide. He serves as the U.S. National Leader for the multinational (Australia-Canada-United Kingdom-United States) analysis group TTCP Focus Area 7 (Fratricide Mitigation). Dr. Lewis analyzed OIF operations and multiple Joint exercises, focusing on mission effectiveness, interoperability, and situational awareness, and Combat ID issues in air and missile defense and air-to-ground operations.

Dr. Lewis received CNA's Phil E. Depoy Award for Analytical Excellence in 2003, held a NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship in 1997, was the 1994 winner of the American Physical Society/HARC Super Prize, and, in 1991, has held a Robert E. Welch Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Lewis earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary and a PhD in Chemistry from Rice University. (Click here to see a video interview of Dr. Lewis)