Andrew Kohut

Andrew Kohut is the president of the Pew Research Center, where he also acts as director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Global Attitudes Project. A frequent op-ed essayist for The New York Times and former columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review, he serves as a press commentator on the meaning and interpretation of opinion poll results, including work for NPR and the PBS NewsHour as a public opinion analyst.

Previously, Kohut served as director of the Times Mirror Center and president of the Gallup Organization, the American Association of Public Opinion Research and the National Council on Public Polls. The founding director of surveys for the Times Mirror Center, Kohut also founded Princeton Survey Research Associates and has been a member of the Market Research Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. Kohut has co-authored four books, including, most recently, America Against the World and The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics.

Among his many honors, Kohut received the first Innovators Award from American Association of Public Opinion and its highest honor, the Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. Kohut graduated from Seton Hall University and studied graduate sociology at Rutgers.