Norris, Pippa is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She has also served as the director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York. Her research compares public opinion and elections, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide. She has served as an expert consultant for many international bodies including the UN, UNESCO, NDI, the Council of Europe, International IDEA, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the UK Electoral Commission. She has served on executive bodies for the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Political Science Association of the UK (PSA), and the British Politics Group of APSA. Norris has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of East Anglia, the University of Oslo, the University of Cape Town, Otago University, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Philosophy from Warwick University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE). Among her publications are: Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World (2009, with Ronald Inglehart); Driving Democracy: Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work? (2008); Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market (2005); Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004, winner of the Virginia Hodgkinson prize from the Independent Sector); Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (2004); Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the Globe (with Ronald Inglehart, 2003); Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide (2002); Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet Worldwide (2001) and A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies (2000, winner of the 2006 Doris A. Graber award for the best book in political communications.