Former President of the American Association of Political Consultants and CEO of The Mellman Group, Mark Mellman is one of the nation’s leading public opinion researchers and communication strategists. His clients include leading political figures, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the nation’s most important public interest groups. Doonesbury labeled Mellman a “Prince of Polling.”

Mellman has helped guide the campaigns of thirty U.S. Senators, ten Governors, over three dozen Members of Congress, and numerous state and local officials.

Mellman also serves as consultant to many of the nation’s most important public interest organizations ranging from The National Education Association, to The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. Government agencies, including the Department of Justice, the World Bank and the State Department have also sought Mellman’s guidance. Mellman’s corporate clients include Intuit (the makers of Quicken), Coca Cola, and MGM Resorts.

Mellman also serves as President of Democratic Majority for Israel, an organization of leading party figures dedicated to ensuring Democrats’ success and the party’s continued support for a strong U.S.- Israel relationship.

Mellman received his undergraduate degree from Princeton, and graduate degrees from Yale University, where he teaches in the Political Science department. He has served as a consultant on politics to CBS News, a presidential debate analyst for PBS, and Mellman’s op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times, among other leading outlets He also writes an influential weekly column for The Hill, the newspaper for and about Congress.