AP-NORC Center Experts

Dan Malato is a senior research director with the Public Affairs and Media Research department. He has more than eight years of experience analyzing and reporting on survey data. During his tenure, he has worked as the project manager and lead analyst on dozens of projects, including many with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. He has experience with questionnaire development, data management, data review, analysis, and reporting on a wide variety of survey projects of varying complexities.

Most recently, he has served as project manager on The Long-Term Care Poll, a series of surveys conducted by The AP-NORC Center sinace 2013 that explore issues related to aging in America. In 2018 and 2020, Dan led the data management and data delivery for AP VoteCast, a groundbreaking election survey that allows for more precise measures of voters’ opinions. These projects each included more than 130,000 interviews conducted in the week before the election and involved rapid, continuous data delivery on Election Night for use in news coverage nationwide.

Dan holds a M.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University. Prior to joining NORC, he worked as a research assistant at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy.

Juan Carlos Donoso is a senior research scientist in the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Donoso is a political scientist whose research focuses on public opinion and political attitudes. He has significant experience managing complex multi-mode surveys in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School, as well as the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. Greenstone’s research is largely focused on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality and society’s energy choices. His current work is particularly focused on testing innovative ways to increase energy access and improve the efficiency of environmental regulations around the world. Additionally, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change as a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab. He also created the Air Quality Life Index that provides a measure of the gain in life expectancy communities would experience if their particulates air pollution concentrations are brought into compliance with global or national standards.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

Louise Hawkley is a principal research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors, particularly loneliness and social isolation, in explaining individual differences in health and well-being in older adulthood. Her current work on the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Prior to her position at the NORC, she was Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago where she was an investigator on NIA-funded studies of loneliness and its antecedents and consequences in middle to older adulthood. She was also a co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial funded by the Department of the Army to evaluate the effects of a social resilience intervention on Soldiers’ job performance and health outcomes. She has given invited lectures and panel presentations for academic and service institutions in Spain, Hungary, France, England, as well as the United States. Hawkley is a member of the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America