John Della Volpe
Statistician
John Della Volpe is the Director of Polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, where he has led the institute’s polling initiatives on understanding American youth since 2000. He serves as President of the New England Association of Eisenhower Fellowships. In 2018, he received the Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award from the University of San Diego.
The Washington Post referred to Della Volpe as one of the world’s leading authorities on global sentiment, opinion and influence especially among millennials and in the age of digital and social media. In 2008, he received an Eisenhower Fellowship for which he traveled extensively throughout China, Hong Kong, and Korea (including a supervised day in North Korea) studying millennials an the use of the internet; in 2011, he was appointed to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission on Media. Della Volpe is also founder of SocialSphere, a Cambridge based public opinion and analytics company. He serves on the Board of Trustees of iCatholic Media and the Ad Club of Boston. Della Volpe appears regularly on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and his insights on millennials are found in national media outlets in the U.S. and abroad, including the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Della Volpe attended The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards on May 21st, 2018, and spoke on the panel “Political Landscape: Future of Elections, Campaigns, & Parties” alongside Susan Del Percio, former Congressman David Jolly, and Bill Schneider, with moderator John Harwood.
Twitter: @DellaVolpe
