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:

• Lisa Berkman, Ph.D., an expert on social influences on health and aging and on social inequalities in health
• 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 wellbeing
• 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
• Jay Freeman, a leading expert on financial services and retail banking
• Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics
• Shane J. Lopez, Ph.D., a leading scholar on hope, an expert on strengths-based education, and an architect of the Gallup Student Poll
• Allan L. McCutcheon, Ph.D., internationally recognized expert on survey research methods and sophisticated data analysis
• Frank L. Schmidt, Ph.D., highly acclaimed researcher and author in the fields of personnel selection and meta-analysis
• 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
• Justin Wolfers, Ph.D., an expert on labor economics, macroeconomics, law and economics, social policy, and behavioral economics