Amir Farmanesh, CEO of People Analytics (VoxNations®) and VoxDash
Dr. Amir Farmanesh is the CEO of People Analytics (VoxNations®) and VoxDash™, focusing on demystifying people's behaviors and opinions in complex societies and difficult contexts. Filling a long-standing void in global knowledge of people’s opinions in hard-to-reach societies, research conducted by our team has had a notable impact, being widely utilized and cited over 1,200 times by 470 different global and local media outlets.
Amir has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, an Edmond Safra fellow with Harvard University, an assistant professor of policy studies at the Virginia Commonwealth University, an Erasmus Mundus fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, a governance consultant with the World Bank Group, and a Mirzayan policy fellow with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
He holds an M.A. and M.P.A. from Syracuse University Maxwell School and a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he worked with the economics Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling and Carol Graham – the Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution – as his doctoral advisors.
Academic and Media Appearances by amir farmanesh
Videos from some of the Public Appearances
Amir Farmanesh on the C-SPAN Networks
Dr. Farmanesh introduces the results of a major survey on economic attitudes conducted by People Analytics.
Nearly forty years have passed since the world was gripped by events in Middle East, as revolutionary students seized the United States Embassy and began the longest hostage crisis in history.
Dr. Farmanesh builds on the results presented in his keynote from the first day of EIF4 in this research update.
in Memory of Professor Thomas Schelling
Excerpt of the letter from Professor Thomas Schelling in support of Dr. Amir Farmanesh and People Analytics
People Analytics is excited to announce the launch of a $250,000 fund in support of opinion research projects with policy or academic impact. Opinion Research Support Fund in Memory of Professor Thomas Schelling, is an internally restricted partial matching support fund that aims to promote and facilitate impactful and methodologically sound opinion research of the population that are made available to the public domain.
We hope that this fund, which is launched on the fourth anniversary of Professor Schelling’s letter in support of his former doctoral student Amir Farmanesh, will remove some of the hindrances social scientists face as they try to go into field or get in contact with those already there.
TESTIMONIES on the RELIABILITY of results
“methodology stands up to scrutiny”
“one of the few considered reliable by analysts”
“[People Analytics] series has become one of the best snapshots of public opinion over recent years, with its polling predictions for the May 2017 presidential elections accurate within less than 2 percentage points.”
“Das in Toronto beheimatete Institut gilt als erfahren und angesehen. (The Toronto-based institute [People Analytics] is considered experienced and respected.)”
“People Analytics is the proud winner of Gallup’s 2018 award for Quality. We are truly honored for this remarkable recognition and thank all of our clients for holding us to such a high standard.”
