Adam Rose was recently appointed CREATE Director for the remainder of the 2026 fiscal year, replacing Detlof von Winterfeldt, who retired at the end of 2025. Professor Rose previously served as CREATE Director between 2019 and 2021. He has been affiliated with CREATE since 2005, and also served as Coordinator for Economics from 2006 to 2014.
Adam Rose is a Research Professor in the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, and a Research Professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also a Faculty Fellow of USC’s Schwarzenegger Institute and a Faculty Affiliate of its METRANS Research Center. Professor Rose’s primary research interest is the economics of disasters. He has spearheaded the development of CREATE’s comprehensive economic consequence analysis framework and has done pioneering research on resilience at the level of the individual business/household, market/industry and regional/national economy. He has also completed dozens of case studies of disaster consequences, resilience and recovery, including the September 11 terrorist attacks, COVID-19, and the Russia-Ukraine War. Professor Rose is the author of several books and over 250 professional papers. He has received numerous awards for his research, and is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and of the Regional Science Association International. (Further details can be found at: https://priceschool.usc.edu/faculty/directory/adam-rose/)
Professor Rose remarked: “I’m happy to serve as CREATE Director during this important transition, as we look forward to hiring a long-term Director next year. I plan to capitalize on my prior experience in the post and from observing the excellent leadership of CREATE in recent years by Randy Hall and Detlof von Winterfeldt. We are now operating in challenging times in the threat and emergencies domains. Natural disasters and the terrorist danger are on the upswing, and CREATE must rise to the occasion, as before, in providing leading research in risk, behavioral, economic, resilience, and decision analysis.”
Professor Rose plans to continue his current research on resilient supply chains on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract, and on a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) project on economic consequence analysis of weapons of mass destruction. Professor Rose also noted: “We will accelerate our work on methodologies such as artificial intelligence and examine new threats related to the wildland-urban interface and related to human health. Also, we are pursuing ways we can contribute to the security of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.”
Professor Rose emphasized that CREATE will also continue to prioritize the mentoring of graduate students, who gain extensive experience working closely with CREATE Fellows on research projects. He also noted plans to work more closely with USC’s Homeland Security Student Organization.
Professor Rose’s latest book (co-edited with Kieran Donaghy of Cornell University), Modeling Transportation Logistics Systems in Post-Conflict Zones: Promoting Economic Viability, Resilience, and Sustainability in Iraq, will be published in June by Springer. It emanates from one of the last Department of Defense Minerva Program grants awarded for research in the social sciences.
Please revisit the CREATE website soon for a forthcoming story on Director Emeritus Detlof von Winterfeldt’s accomplishments and contributions to CREATE.
Posted April 6. 2026