George Gallup, Jr.

George Gallup is Chairman of The George H. Gallup International Institute, founded in 1988 by the Gallup family, to "discover, test and encourage new applications to social problems." Mr. Gallup has been in the field of polling for half a century, much of this time with the Gallup Poll. He served for many years as President of the Gallup Poll and Co-Chairman of The Gallup Organization. The focus of a great deal of Mr. George Gallup's work over the years has been on religion and spirituality, and he has directed more than 100 national surveys on these topics. In 1977, he and Dr. Miriam Murphy, a sociologist, founded the Princeton Religion Research Center to explore, through surveys, the nature and depth of religion here and abroad.

Mr. Gallup is a Trustee of the John T. Templeton Foundation, and the Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, and serves on the boards of many other organizations, local and national. Mr. Gallup received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University, in the Department of Religion, in 1954. He holds seven honorary degrees in the areas of Law, Religion, Science and Letters. He is the author of numerous books, among the most recent of which are: Surveying the Religious Landscape; The New American Spirituality; Growing Up Scared in America; and The Saints Among Us.