GeoPoll is happy to welcome Dr. Charles Lau to the workforce as our Chief Analysis Officer (CRO). Dr. Lau is an internationally acknowledged skilled in survey analysis who focuses on harnessing progressive strategies to enhance knowledge high quality and researching new knowledge assortment strategies. On this new function at GeoPoll, Dr. Lau will supply his technical experience in analysis to assist GeoPoll’s cell device-driven knowledge assortment tasks.

He joins GeoPoll from RTI Worldwide, the place he led multi-mode surveys and carried out analysis on survey strategies for 12 years. He was a survey methodologist for a decade and most lately led RTI’s Worldwide Survey Analysis Program.

Dr. Lau has carried out surveys in additional than 30 international locations for shoppers within the worldwide improvement and business sectors. His expertise consists of examine design, questionnaire improvement and testing, sampling, knowledge assortment, knowledge processing, and evaluation. Dr. Lau has used a number of modes—cell phone, face-to-face, and net—to check various subjects world wide. He has carried out public opinion surveys with most of the people and particular populations for the U.S. State Division, USAID, and the Pew Analysis Middle. With the U.S. CDC, he supported Ministries of Well being in 10 international locations to make use of cellphones for illness surveillance. Dr. Lau additionally led a program of nationally consultant surveys on expertise adoption with over 200,000 respondents in 12 international locations.

His scientific analysis focuses on enhancing knowledge high quality via progressive survey strategies, sampling, and measurement methods. He has printed greater than 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals, such because the Worldwide Journal of Public Opinion Analysis, Survey Analysis Strategies, and the Journal of Worldwide Improvement, and lately served as an Knowledgeable Panel Member and Co-Moderator for a U.S. Nationwide Academies of Sciences panel on the standard of worldwide survey knowledge.

“I’m delighted to hitch GeoPoll because the Chief Analysis Officer,” stated Charles Lau. “GeoPoll is a worldwide chief in cell analysis: its expertise platform permits scientifically legitimate, multi-mode surveys to assist our shoppers’ data-driven resolution making. I sit up for supporting GeoPoll’s mission and advancing to GeoPoll’s progressive knowledge assortment methodologies.”

Dr. Lau holds a PhD in Sociology and Masters in Epidemiology from the College of California, Los Angeles and a BA in Sociology from Brown College.