Alan Cooperman
Pew Research Center Director, Religion Research
Washington, D.C.
acooperman@pewresearch.org // Alan Cooperman is director of religion research at the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, where he leads a staff of more than 20 researchers who conduct surveys, demographic analyses and other empirical studies of religion’s role in public life and societal change around the world. He plays a key role in setting the religion team’s research agenda and writing its reports. He has edited or co-authored several of the Center’s landmark studies, including its report on the Rise of the “Nones” (2012), Portrait of Jewish Americans (2013) and U.S. Religious Landscape Survey (2014). Before joining the Center in 2009, he was a national reporter and editor at the Washington Post, foreign editor of U.S. News & World Report and a foreign correspondent (in Moscow and Jerusalem) for U.S. News & World Report and the Associated Press. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1982 and started in professional journalism at The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass. He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC.