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Neli Esipova

Affiliate Member of the Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies

Transnational Mobility Research Stream

E-mail neli_esipova@gallup.com

Neli Esipova is the Director of Research for Global Migration and Regional Director for Gallup’s World Poll for the former Soviet Union. She has led Gallup’s groundbreaking research into global migration patterns while also managing over 80 studies on a diverse set of topics in former Soviet Union countries. Neli frequently presents insights from her research to international audiences. Recently she has been a keynote speaker at 2010 and 2009 Global Forums on Migration and Development in Greece and Mexico and at 2010 APPAM Migration: World in Motion Conference in Maastricht. She has presented at 2011 OECD Working Party on Migration, and at numerous Wellbeing, Positive Psychology, Leadership, and Migration Conferences. She also presented to experts at the G8 Presidency in Moscow.

Government officials often call upon Neli’s deep knowledge of the former Soviet Union and survey methodological experience. She has consulted the World Economic Forum on survey implementation.

Neli’s survey methodological interests are diverse and include cooperation incentives, refusal avoidance and conversion, as well as explorations of online research methods. She has presented at numerous conferences on methodology, including AAPOR, AMA Explore Forum, International Field Directors and Technologies Conference, CASRO and International Conference of Survey Non-Response. Neli is one of the authors of “Qualitative Research Online”, the first book that provides a complete analysis and comparison of traditional and online qualitative methods.

Neli is the author of over 60 published articles and has frequently appeared in Harvard International Review with articles including: Conflict in the Caucasus, Russian Muslims, Questions of Freedom, The decisive factor: post-Soviet states’ attitudes toward NATO, and Inside Turkmenistan, A Glimpse at the Central Asian Country.

Neli’s research expertise has been a key driver to building the largest research foundation of world public opinion data in existence. Gallup continually surveys around the globe and has collected opinions in over 150 countries total.

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