Mark Mellman, one of the nation’s leading public opinion researchers and communication strategists, is past President of the American Association of Political Consultants, a political consultant Hall of Famer, and was the CEO and founder of The Mellman Group, a polling and consulting firm whose clients include leading political figures and some of the nation’s most important public interest groups.

Mellman helped guide the campaigns of thirty U.S. Senators, a dozen Governors, over three dozen Members of Congress, and numerous state and local officials. His clients included Senators Harry Reid, Maria Cantwell, and Brian Schatz; Governors Tony Evers, Jennifer Granholm, Jim Doyle, and Christine Gregoire; and Members of Congress Jared Golden, Steny Hoyer, Annie Kuster, Jake Auchincloss, and Seth Moulton.

The Mellman Group’s string of upset victories and unparalleled accuracy recently brought the firm the prestigious “Pollster of the Year” award from the American Association of Political Consultants more often than any other firm.

Nate Silver cited The Mellman Group as the most accurate campaign pollster in the country as the firm won a series of Reed Awards from Campaigns & Elections Magazine including two for “Campaign Comeback of the Year,” “Best Use of New Technology” (for our innovative internet-based ad testing), and several for “Best Public Affairs Campaign.”

Newsweek credits his work on the environment with helping “turn Bill Clinton green.” The Economist recognized him as the “brains behind the Democrats’ successful ‘Mediscare’ strategy” and Politico described the firm’s role in developing Democrats’ economic messages, noting that Mellman’s manufacturing presentation “electrified Democratic leaders.”

The firm’s string of upset victories led the Boston Globe to call The Mellman Group Washington’s “hottest” political consulting firm, and the New Republic describes Mellman as “a leading Democratic technologist.” Capitol Hill’s newspaper, Roll Call, named him one of the most influential people in Washington when it comes to electing candidates to Congress. Even Doonesbury has gotten into the act, labeling Mellman a “Prince of Polling.”

Respected entities also turn to Mellman for his objective, unvarnished analysis of public opinion. The U.S. Departments of Justice, State and Labor have all turned to The Mellman Group for critical studies, as has the World Bank. In addition, Mellman works with some of the nation’s most important public interest organizations ranging from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the NEA, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the League of Conservation Voters, and the League of Women Voters.

Mellman received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and graduate degrees from Yale, where he teaches in the Political Science department.

He served as a consultant to CBS News for over two decades, and as a presidential debate analyst for PBS and The Wall Street Journal. Mellman’s op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal among others, and wrote an influential weekly column for The Hill, a newspaper “for and about Congress.”