Ronald Clouse is an advanced consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in biology and worked for several years during the dot-com boom at the investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co. in New York City. He also has a Master of Science degree in animal behavior from the University of Florida and a Bachelor’s degree in area studies from Duke University. He has worked at Union Bank of Switzerland and the American Museum of Natural History, and he has published dozens of scientific articles in computational biology, DNA analysis, and evolution.