Dalia Mogahed is a senior analyst for the Gallup Organization and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a nonpartisan research center that provides data-driven analysis, advice, and education on the views of Muslims around the world. She also serves on the faculty for Gallup University's certification course, "What Muslims Think", based on findings from the Gallup World Poll. Mogahed provides leadership, strategic direction, and consultation on the collection and analysis of Gallup's unprecedented surveying of more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide. She also leads the curriculum development of an executive course on findings from the Gallup Poll of the Muslim World. Prior to joining Gallup, Mogahed was the founder and director of a cross-cultural consulting practice in the United States, which offered workshops, training programs, and one-to-one coaching on diversity and cultural understanding. Mogahed earned her master's degree in business administration with an emphasis in strategy from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. With John L. Esposito, Ph.D., she is also coauthor of the forthcoming book Who Speaks for Islam? Listening to the Voices of a Billion Muslims.

Ideas recorded at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival on: 7/3/07