Dalia Mogahed
Senior Analyst & Executive Director, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
Dalia Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and
Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a
nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis
on the views of Muslim populations around the world. With John L.
Esposito, Ph.D., she is coauthor of the book Who Speaks for Islam?: What
a Billion Muslims Really Think. Her analysis has appeared in The Wall
Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, the Harvard International
Review, the Middle East Policy journal, and many other academic and
popular journals.
Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey
representing the opinions of more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide,
including Muslims in the West. She also directs the Muslim-West Facts
Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com), through which Gallup, in
collaboration with the Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings
of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and
the West.
Mogahed travels the globe engaging diverse groups on what Muslims
around the world really think. Her audiences have included the
High-Level Group of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, the
Community of West and Islam Dialogue (C-100) group of the World Economic
Forum, the Brookings Institution's U.S.-Islamic World Forum, British
parliamentarians, American senators, and religious leaders from every
faith. She has discussed Gallup findings with a wide range of opinion
leaders, including Madeleine Albright, Deepak Chopra, Stephen R., Covey,
Quincy Jones, and Jeffrey Sachs; Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman;
evangelical leader Richard Land; bestselling author Karen Armstrong;
U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel; Muslim activist and teacher Amr Khaled; and
Sheikh Habib Ali al-Jifri, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, Her Majesty Queen Rania
al Abdullah of Jordan, as well as two of the highest authorities of
Sunni Islam, the Grand Muftis of Egypt and Bosnia, their Excellencies
Dr. Ali Gomaa and Dr. Mustafa Ceric.
Mogahed is a member of Women in International Security, serves on the
leadership group of the Project on U.S. Engagement with the Global
Muslim Community, and is a member of the Crisis in the Middle East Task
Force of the Brookings Institution.
Mogahed earned her master's degree in business administration with an
emphasis in strategy from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her undergraduate degree
in chemical engineering. Upon graduation, Mogahed joined Procter Gamble
as a marketing products researcher.
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