Leading
World-renowned pollster and New York Times best-selling author, advises national and business leaders with a deep knowledge of social and economic currents
Stanley Greenberg is a New York Times best-selling author and polling adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs globally and right now, conducting deep research in multiple countries on climate change. He was the senior pollster for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Nelson Mandela and Rev. Andrew Young and Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Greenberg's corporate clients have included Boeing, BP, Microsoft and other global companies.
Greenberg's research and writing on disruptive changes in the US, Britain, Europe, South Africa, and Latin America and on the parties of both left and right is driving the public debate. His book about how America addresses its deepest problems was applauded by Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, for its "great sense of history as well as deep understanding of the hopes and fears of today's Americans." His co-authored book with James Carville, It’s the Middle Class Stupid!, was a New York Times best seller.
Greenberg’s book, Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders, according to Kirkus Reviews, “lifts the curtain on the global pollster/consultant business.”
Greenberg and Nick Butler — a leading commentator on global energy for the Financial Times and Nikkei Asian Review — founded the Climate Policy & Strategy Project to help leaders succeed while advancing the climate transition. It is helping elected leaders in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and the E.U.
Greenberg advised BP when headed by Lord John Browne and during the transition to “Beyond Petroleum.”
Greenberg advised Ambassador-at-large Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, the first woman to be president of an Olympics Organizing Committee when she headed the successful Athens Games and who was President of Greece 2021 that highlights opportunities in modern Greece.
Greenberg was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants' "Hall of Fame." He has been described as "the father of modern polling techniques," "the De Niro of all political consultants," and "an unrivaled international 'guru.'" Esquire Magazine named him one of the most important people of the 21st century. Republican pollster Frank Luntz says, "Stan Greenberg scares the hell out of me. He doesn't just have a finger on the people's pulse; he's got an IV injected into it. He's the best.".
Greenberg always works collaboratively with distinguished Republican pollsters and conducts the bi-partisan polls for NPR, The Los Angeles Times and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Greenberg and James Carville founded Democracy Corps, the leading organization providing in-depth research and strategic advice to progressive groups, candidates, and leaders. When Karl Rove listed in the Wall Street Journal 10 steps to regain the Republican majority, step one was to create a Democracy Corps of their own.
Greenberg taught for a decade at Yale University where he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was educated at Miami University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. He is married to Rosa DeLauro and they have three children and six wondrous grandchildren
