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Craig Charney, President of Charney Research, is a highly experienced pollster and a political
scientist. He has two decades of research experience on public opinion and voting behavior.
Before founding the firm, he was Senior Analyst on the polling teams of President Bill
Clinton. He also co-directed voter education polling for Nelson Mandela and the ANC in South
Africa’s first election in 1994, working with Stanley Greenberg and Celinda Lake.
He has wide experience with political, non-profit, corporate, and governmental clients,
both in the US and more than 20 countries overseas. He has worked in local, Congressional,
state-wide, and national races, as well as working on topics such as health insurance, HIV/AIDS,
education, transportation, social policy, immigration, the environment, agriculture, and
workplace attitudes.
Thanks to the combination of his academic background and research
experience, he has particular expertise in the areas of democracy
promotion, including voter and civic education, public education
and information campaigns, civil society, inter-group relations,
conflict resolution, and legal reform. He has also worked on economic
development issues, including investor attitudes, privatization,
and cost recovery strategies. His market research experience includes
projects in the high tech, biotech, food, petroleum products, health
care, education, travel and tourism, automotive, luxury goods, and
charitable contributions sectors.
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addition to his consulting work, Craig is a widely published political scientist and commentator.
He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale, specializing in comparative and American
politics, as well as a Master’s-level diploma in the Sociology of Development from
the Sorbonne and an M.Phil. in politics from Oxford. Since the fall of 2003 he has been
a part-time faculty member at the New School University in New York, where he teaches about
polling and politics. Craig has published more than a dozen articles in scholarly journals
and a book based on his polling and research work, as well as pieces in The New York Times
and other leading newspapers. He is a frequent commentator on politics on TV and radio in
the US and Canada. He has also spoken in prestigious fora, including the NYU Institute of
Politics, New School’s Center for New York Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He is fluent in French and Spanish.
A native New Yorker, Craig is active on the board of a local Headstart program. He is a
member of the American Association of Political Consultants and the American Political Science
Association.
Email: craig @ charneyresearch.com
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