2009 Event Speakers

  • James Clifton

    James Clifton

    CEO, Gallup Inc.

    Jim Clifton is best known in the polling and survey research field for leading the acquisition of The Gallup Organization in 1988, at which time he became CEO of the organization founded by the renowned polling pioneer, Dr. George H. Gallup.

    Under Clifton's leadership, Gallup has enjoyed a fifteenfold increase in its billing volume and has expanded from a predominantly U.S.-based company to a global organization with more than 40 offices in 20 countries.

    Clifton is best known in the business world as the creator of The Gallup Path. This metric-based economic model establishes the linkages among human nature in the workplace, customer engagement, and business outcomes. The Gallup Path is integral to the performance management systems in more than 500 companies worldwide and forms the basis of most of Gallup's total revenues.

    Clifton's most recent innovation, the Gallup World Poll, is designed to give the world's 6 billion citizens a voice in key global issues. Clifton has pledged to continue this effort to collect people's opinions for 100 years in 150 countries.

    Video from the summit: State of Global Public Opinion: Energy and Climate Change

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