Curriculum Vitae

2006

Current Positions

Chairman, Viewpoint Learning, Inc. (giving organizations the tools for a new style of dialogue- and learning-based leadership)

Chairman, Public Agenda

Chairman, DYG, Inc. (tracking social trends and public attitudes)

Special Advisor, Aspen Institute

Special Advisor, Blackstone Group/Toyota

Consultant, Fund for the City of New York

Special Advisor, Trinity Church

Advisory Board, Pew Partnership

International Advisory Board, Angus Reid Group

Academic

Director, UCSD Civic Collaborative, University of California at San Diego (present)

Senior Fellow, The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1996)

Regents Professor, University of California at Irvine (1981)

Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research (1973-1978)

Research Professor of Psychology, New York University (1968-1973)

Lecturer in Psychiatry, Tufts Medical School (1952-1959)

Corporate Directorships (current and emeritus)

Arkla, Inc.

CBS Corporation

Diversified Energies, Inc.

Loral Space & Communications Corporation

Meredith Corporation

Reliance Group, Inc.

Sunmark Industries, Inc.

U S West, Inc. (now Qwest Communications International Inc.)

Trusteeships (current and emeritus)

The Austen Riggs Center

Brown University

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland

The Concord Coalition

Educational Testing Service (Chairman, 1993-1996)

Fund for the City of New York

The Japan Society

The Kettering Foundation

Project 180 (an offshoot of the Mellon Foundation)

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (President, 1992-1993)

Organizational Start-ups

Founder (in 1958), Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc.

Co-founder (with Cyrus Vance, 1976) and current President, The Public Agenda

Founder, the New York Times/Yankelovich Poll (a predecessor to the New York Times/CBS Poll)

Founder (in 1980), New Framework Group

Founder (1986) and current Chairman, DYG, Inc.

Founder (1998) and current Chairman, Viewpoint Learning, Inc.

Awards

Election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999

Recipient, Common Ground Book of the Year Award (for The Magic of Dialogue), 1999

Recipient, New York AAPOR Annual Award, 1998

Recipient, Helen Dinerman Award, World Association of Public Opinion, 1995

Education

Honorary Doctorate, George Washington University

Honorary Doctorate, Washington University

Honorary Doctorate, St. Bonaventure University

The Sorbonne, Paris (Graduate Studies)

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (Rantoul Fellow in Clinical Psychology)

Harvard College, B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude)

Boston Latin School

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