Amir Farmanesh is the CEO of 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, studies conducted by our team have 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 Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, a governance consultant with the World Bank Group, and a 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.