John Zogby,
President/CEO, Zogby International

John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International, is highly regarded as a pollster who can talk the language of business while keeping his finger on the American and international pulse. Since 1996, Zogby has polled for Reuters News Agency, the largest news agency in the world, and in 2000, polled for NBC News, the network news watched by most Americans. His clients also include MSNBC, the New York Post, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Fox News, Gannett News Service, the Albany Times Union, the Buffalo News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jackson Ledger, Arkansas Democrat and Gazette, the Cincinnati Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Toledo Blade, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Syracuse Herald, and nearly every daily newspaper in New York State, as well as television stations throughout the U.S. Zogby regularly appears on all three nightly network news programs plus NBC's Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America, and is a frequent guest for Fox News and MSNBC special programs, along with CNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Zogby holds degrees in history from Le Moyne College and Syracuse University. He has taught history and political science at the State University of New York, Utica College, and at Hamilton College's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of LeMoyne College, and received its Distinguished Alumni Award in June 2000. Zogby was also a Senior Associate of Global Affairs of Citizenship & Public Affairs at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, is a distinguished visitor at Colgate University and a frequent lecturer and panelist around the world. He also serves on the Development Board of the School of Arts and Science at Catholic University of America. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association in New York, and recently served on a White House advisory council to improve public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim worlds.