Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow
Doug Schoen has been a highly influential Democratic campaign consultant for over 40 years. He is the Founding Partner and former Principal Strategist for the internationally-known polling and consulting firm Penn, Schoen and Berland. He is also the Founder and Principal of Schoen Consulting in New York City. Schoen is widely considered to be one of the innovators of the modern polling and research business.
His political clients have included former President Bill Clinton as well as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He has worked for United States senators and governors, including former Indiana Senator and Governor Evan Bayh. He also worked with leading American corporations, such as Time Warner, Procter & Gamble, and AT&T. Internationally, he has worked for the heads of states of over 15 countries, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Schoen is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Fox News, and various other newspaper and online publications. He is also an author of several books, including: The Politics of Life: My Road to the Middle of a Hostile and Adversarial World (2024); Four Presidents: Kennedy, Nixon, Biden, Trump: Leaders Who Changed History in Changing Times (2023); Power: The 50 Truths (2023); The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World (2023); America: Unite or Die: How to Save Our Democracy (2021); The End of Democracy? Russia and China on the Rise, America in Retreat (2020); and Mad as Hell: How the Tea Part Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System (2010).