Laura Silver is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center and an expert in international survey research. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, she was a foreign affairs research analyst at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of Opinion Research focused on East Asia. She received a dual Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in journals such as the International Journal of Public Opinion Research and International Studies Quarterly.

Theme: the state of public opinion towards gender equality and democracy worldwide