Gary King (political scientist)

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Gary King
Born	(1958-12-08) December 8, 1958 (age 65) New York City, New York, U.S.
Academic background
Education	State University of New York at New Paltz (BA) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Leon Epstein
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Sub-discipline	Political methodology
Institutions	New York University Harvard University
Doctoral students	Jennifer Hill Claudine Gay[1]
Notable works	Unifying Political Methodology (1989) Designing Social Inquiry (1994) A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem (1997)
Website	gking.harvard.edu

Gary King (born December 8, 1958) is an American political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. King and his research group develop and apply empirical methods in many areas of social science research, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application.^[2]