David Dutwin (Ph.D. ‘02) Elected AAPOR Vice President/President Elect
Dutwin is Executive Vice President and Chief Methodologist of SSRS, a survey and market research firm.
Annenberg alumnus David Dutwin (Ph.D. ‘02) was recently elected the Vice President/President Elect of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).
Dutwin is Executive Vice President and Chief Methodologist of SSRS, a full-service survey and market research firm, where he is primarily responsible for sampling designs, project management, executive oversight, weighting, and statistical estimation. Several other Annenberg alumni are also part of SSRS’s leadership, including Melissa Herrmann (M.A.C. ‘97), President; Eran Ben-Porath (Ph.D. ‘08), Executive Vice President of Public Opinion Research; and Susan Sherr (Ph.D. ’01), Vice President of Demographic and Policy Research.
In addition to his work at SSRS, Dutwin is a Senior Fellow with the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES), and he teaches a course on research methodology at the Annenberg School, both at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Research Scholar at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research, and he is the author of many articles and reports, as well as one book, Unplug Your Kids: A Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, Active and Well-Adjusted Children in the Digital Age (Adams Media).
“David’s accomplished career in survey research makes all of us at the Annenberg School proud,” says Michael X. Delli Carpini, Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School. “AAPOR is the field’s flagship professional association, and we congratulate him warmly on being chosen as its Vice President and President Elect.”
Dutwin will begin his term as Vice President/President Elect of AAPOR at the organization’s upcoming 72nd annual conference held in New Orleans.
