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title: "Our Governing Board"
description: "Pew Research Center’s Board of Directors is a governing body composed of distinguished individuals from a variety of backgrounds who volunteer their time. The Board is responsible for selecting the Center’s leadership, reviewing the standards of integrity, monitoring the Center's…"
date: "2014-07-10"
authors:
  - name: "Abigail Geiger"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/about/our-governing-board/"
---

# Our Governing Board

Pew Research Center’s Board of Directors is a governing body composed of distinguished individuals from a variety of backgrounds who volunteer their time. The Board is responsible for selecting the Center’s leadership, reviewing the standards of integrity, monitoring the Center's financial health, and ensuring the scholarly independence of the Center. The board advises senior leadership on organizational strategy and mission alignment; it is not involved in the execution of the Center’s research, analysis of data, or production of reports or other products.

### Robert M. Groves (chair)

Interim President, Georgetown University

[Biography](https://president.georgetown.edu/profiles/robert-m-groves/)

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### Michael Dimock (nonvoting)

President, Pew Research Center

[Biography](https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/michael-dimock/)

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### Claudine Gay

Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

[Biography](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-gay)

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### Rea Holmes

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Pew Charitable Trusts

[Biography](https://www.pew.org/en/about/leadership/rea-holmes)

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### Burke Olsen

Publisher, Deseret News

[Biography](https://www.linkedin.com/in/burke-olsen/)

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### Mike Roggero

Chairman & CEO, Fuse Media

[Biography](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-roggero-377929/)

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### Maria Thomas

Startup advisor and investor

[Biography](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariacthomas/)

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### Maribel Pérez Wadsworth

President & CEO, Knight Foundation

[Biography](https://knightfoundation.org/employee/maribel-perez-wadsworth/)

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### Rebecca Weiss

Social/Data Scientist and Technology Leader

[Biography](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjweiss/)

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