Carroll Doherty

Carroll Doherty is former director of political research at the Pew Research Center, where he played a leading role in developing the center’s research agenda and overseeing editorial content about long-term trends in political values, US views on policy issues and priorities, and political knowledge and news interest.

Doherty regularly provides analysis of public opinion and politics for domestic and international news outlets, including NPR, CNBC, and the BBC. He also speaks to government, academic and business groups on these topics.

Before joining the Pew Research Center, Doherty was a journalist for many years, covering congressional leadership, politics and foreign affairs as a senior writer for Congressional Quarterly and serving as an off-air investigative reporter for CBS News on foreign affairs. He holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola University Maryland.