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Dina Smeltz
Dina Smeltz is managing director and chair of public opinion and foreign policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, where she leads the Council’s annual survey of American attitudes toward foreign policy and oversees its partnerships with international research organizations. With more than 25 years of experience in public opinion research, Smeltz has designed and conducted surveys across the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. Before joining the Council in 2012, she held senior research positions in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the US Department of State, where she conducted more than 100 surveys and regularly briefed senior government officials on her findings.
John Lapinski
John Lapinski is the Robert A. Fox Professor of Political Science, faculty director of the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, and director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as faculty director for the Executive Master's of Public Administration program within the Fels Institute of Government and as director of the elections unit at NBC News. In his role for NBC News, Lapinski is responsible for projecting races for the network and produces election-related stories through exit polls for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and all of NBC's digital properties. Lapinski's primary area of research is concerned with understanding national elections as well as lawmaking in Congress through empirical analysis.
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