Peter D. Hart

For other Peter Harts, see Peter Hart (disambiguation).

Peter D. Hart is the chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates since 1971, and is a senior counselor to TMG Strategies. Together with Robert Teeter or Bill McInturff, Hart and his company have provided NBC News and The Wall Street Journal with polls since 1989. More than 40 U.S. senators and 30 governors, among them Hubert Humphrey, Lloyd Bentsen, Jay Rockefeller and Bob Graham, have been represented by Hart Research.[1]

NGOs and institutions like Smithsonian Institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Habitat for Humanity, the ACLU, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Kennedy Center are clients of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, as well as corporations such as Boeing, Time-Warner, American Airlines, Coca-Cola, IBM, Fannie Mae, AT&T, and Tiffany & Co.[1][2] The book The Kennedy Half-Century includes references to his polling.[3][4]

Hart received his BA at Colby College in 1964.[5] Hart has lectured public policy at Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Berkeley's Travers Department of Political Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.[2]

Hart is frequently invited to major television programs, such as Meet the Press, The Today Show, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss public policy issues.[6]

  1. ^ a b Senior Staff Bios – Peter Hart Archived 2007-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, Peter D. Hart Research Associates, accessed on August 19, 2007
  2. ^ a b Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley | IGS National Advisory Council | Peter Hart Archived 2007-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, UC Berkeley, accessed August 19, 2007
  3. ^ Press release noting Peter D. Hart's participation in polling for The Kennedy Half-Century
  4. ^ Sabato, Larry J. "The Kennedy Half Century". Retrieved June 20, 2022.
  5. ^ Peter D. Hart, nndb, accessed on August 19, 2007
  6. ^ Goldman School of Public Policy – Peter D. Hart, Visiting Professor Archived 2007-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, Goldman School of Public Policy, accessed on August 19, 2007