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Clifford Young
President of Polling & Societal Trends, US Public Affairs
Ipsos


Cliff Young is President of Polling and Societal Trends at Ipsos. Cliff’s career-long passion has been to understand public opinion as a critical stakeholder in society and to contextualize it for decision-makers. Cliff has run research and policy businesses both big and small in the US and Brazil. Cliff is an expert on consumer and public opinion trends, policy trends and priorities, corporate reputation, elections and scenario construction. He also is an Ipsos spokesperson and oversees Ipsos media partnerships, including ABC News, Axios, NPR, Thomson Reuters, USA Today, and the Washington Post. He is a frequent writer, analyst, and media commentator on elections, consumer behavior, and public opinion. He can be seen with regularity on Bloomberg, Fox, and CSPAN. Cliff is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS and is an instructor at Columbia University where he teaches courses—at both institutions—on public opinion and forecasting. He will also be a visiting professor at Texas A&M’s the Bush School. Cliff released a book in November 2024: Polls, Pollsters, and Public Opinion: A Guide for Decision-Makers by Cambridge University Press. His forthcoming book, Nativist Nation: Populism, Grievance, Identity, and the Transformation of American Politics (De Gruyter, September 2025), explores how identity-based grievance is reshaping politics in the United States and abroad.

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