Senior Scientists are leading experts who advise and consult with Gallup researchers and select clients. Their contributions serve to further our mission and ensure that our research and development programs are on the cutting edge.
Senior Scientists have advised Gallup on a range of topics, including leadership, management, employee selection and development, public opinion research, Positive Psychology, and research methodology. Each Senior Scientist is a foremost authority in his or her field. Current members of this distinguished science advisory council include:
- Bruce J. Avolio, Ph.D. , internationally recognized researcher on leadership
- Larry A. Braskamp, Ph.D. , authority on creating campus-wide strengths-based initiatives designed to develop the whole student
- Vinton G. Cerf, Ph.D. , widely known as an Internet evangelist and principal collaborator in the development of the Internet
- Deepak Chopra, M.D. , leading authority on "connectedness" and how one-to-one relationships affect peace throughout the world
- Angus Deaton, Ph.D., internationally known researcher on health, economic development, household behavior, and the measurement of poverty in India and around the world
- Ed Diener, Ph.D. , leading expert on the theories and measurement of well-being
- Don A. Dillman, Ph.D. , principal authority on survey research data collection methodologies
- John L. Esposito, Ph.D. , a world-renowned scholar on Islam, political Islam, and the impact of Islamic movements in Africa and Asia
- Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. , winner of the Nobel Prize in economics
- Sang M. Lee, Ph.D. , internationally known expert in the fields of decision sciences, productivity management, and global business
- Shane Lopez, Ph.D. , a leading positive psychology scholar and practitioner and consultant to colleges and universities on student and faculty development programs
- Fred Luthans, Ph.D. , groundbreaking researcher on organizational behavior, leadership, and international management
- Allan L. McCutcheon, Ph.D. , internationally recognized expert on survey research methods and sophisticated data analysis
- N. Joyce Payne, Ed.D. , authority on women's issues and the current state of women in the world
- Frank L. Schmidt, Ph.D. , highly acclaimed researcher and author in the fields of personnel selection and meta-analysis
- Stephen Sireci, Ph.D. , expert in the application of statistical models to evaluate the efficacy of organizational and individual measurement and assessment tools
- Arthur A. Stone, Ph.D. , leading researcher in the advancement of behavioral medicine
- Lisa Strausfeld , an expert on data visualization and distilling complex information sources into visually compelling, actionable user interfaces
- Gerald R. Wagner, Ph.D. , highly successful entrepreneur in the software technology arena
