Dan Vallone is a national expert and authority on polarization in America. Dan has led some of the most high-profile public-opinion studies of polarization and Dan has worked with stakeholders across the political spectrum on efforts to manage the risks and challenges of polarization. Dan regularly speaks about the ways to address polarization and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, C-SPAN, Boston Globe, CNN, Financial Times, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, the Undivided Attention podcast, and a range of other media outlets.

Dan graduated from West Point, served six years as an infantry officer, and has an MBA from Harvard and a MA in Contemporary China from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where he was a Fulbright Scholar. 

Dan brings a unique set of experiences to his work helping companies manage polarization. He has worked in politics at the national, state, and local level; he is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan; and he has led large-scale consumer research and strategic communications initiatives on a range of issues.