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Francois Melese
Professor Emeritus
Defense Resources Management Institute
Ph.D., Economics, University of Louvain, Belgium, 1982
fmelese@nps.edu
(831) 656-2009

Francois Melese, professor and former DRMI executive director, has over 30 years of experience conducting courses and workshops for U.S. and international civilian and military officials. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, M.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1979, and Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium in June 1987. Prior to joining the DRMI faculty in September of 1987, Dr. Melese was an assistant professor of economics at Auburn University. In 2005, Dr. Melese participated in the Defense Department’s (DoD’s) Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), and in 2008 contributed to DoD’s first Strategic Management Plan. More recently he has served as panel member or consultant/advisor for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (Comptroller), the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Navy Seals, DoD’s Defense Business Board, and Canada’s Defense Forces. Dr. Melese has also represented the United States as a speaker and moderator at NATO meetings, and helped launch NATO’s new “Building Integrity” program. He is a member of the American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, American Society of Military Comptrollers, and the Research Society of American Scientists-Sigma XI. He is an author and co-editor of the book, Military Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory & Practice.