Peter D. Hart

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Peter D. Hart is the chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates since 1971, and is a Senior Counselor to the McGinn Group. Together with Robert Teeter, Mr. 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, were represented by Mr. Hart.[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]

Mr. Hart received his BA at Colby College in 1964.[3] During the last decade, Hart lectured public policy at Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and at UC Berkeley.[2]

According to the biography published on the Peter D Hart Research website, the American Association of Political Consultants (AACP) gave Peter Hart in 2002 the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Campaign Consulting.[1] However, there is no indication on the AACP's website of his Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the AACP, no one received such an award in 2002.[4].

Hart is frequently invited to major television programmes, such as Meet the Press, The Today Show, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss public policy issues.[5]

Hart attended the 2007 meeting of the secretive Bilderberg Group, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey.[6]

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  1. ^ a b c Senior Staff Bios - Peter Hard, 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, UC Berkeley, accessed August 19 2007
  3. ^ Peter D. Hart, nndb, accessed on August 19 2007
  4. ^ American Association of Political Consultants, American Association of Political Consultants, accessed on August 18 2007
  5. ^ Goldman School of Public Policy - Peter D. Hart, Visting Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, accessed on August 19 2007
  6. ^ Bilderberg 2007 - Towards a One World Empire?, Nexus Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5 (August - September 2007), accessed on August 18 2007