Costas Panagopoulos

Costas Panagopoulos is an American professor of political science and director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy at Fordham University in New York. Panagopoulos' areas of research include campaigns and elections, voting behavior, political psychology and communication, media and public opinion, campaign strategy and campaign finance. He is the editor-in-chief of American Politics Research and has been a member of the decision desk team at NBC since 2006.

He is also Adjunct Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia University and previously founded and directed the Master's Program in Political Campaign Management at New York University. Panagopoulos has been a research associate, visiting professor, and fellow at the Center for the Study of American Politics and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University. He was the 2004 congressional fellow of the American Political Science Association. Panagopoulos received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from New York University.