Biography

Dr. Jeremy D. Rosner, Executive Vice President at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in Washington, DC, is one of the world’s leading consultants for political parties, candidates, governments, NGOs, and corporate leaders around the globe. He specializes in using sophisticated public opinion research to help global leaders design and implement winning political and communications strategies. His work as a pollster, campaign consultant, strategic adviser, and expert on international affairs focuses heavily on the transitional countries of Central Europe and Latin America, and has been cited in many publications around the world.

Since joining GQR in 1998, Dr. Rosner has directed public opinion research and provided strategic advice for dozens of leaders, governments, and campaigns in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, as well as for major corporations and issue organizations. His current and recent clients include:

 • President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia
 • President Viktor Yushchenko and the Our Ukraine Party
 • The Israeli Labor Party
 • The government of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda of Slovakia
 • Premier Morris Iemma and the Labor Party of New South Wales, Australia
 • Romanian President Traian Basescu
 • Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy
 • Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
 • Bulgarian Finance Minister Milen Veltchev
 • Former Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek and the UW Party
 • British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Labour Party
 • Francesco Rutelli and the Olive Tree coalition in Italy
 • Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
 • U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore
 • U.S. vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman
 • Mexican presidential candidate Francisco Labastida 
 • The president of the Organizing Committee of the Athens 2004 Olympics
 • The Markle Foundation in New York
 • The Israel Project
 • CNBC, Monsanto, Fitch Ratings, Sainsbury’s, Sun, and other top corporations

In 2005, CNN named Rosner as one of “five political consultants to watch.” In 2003, Campaigns and Elections magazine named Rosner as one of their annual “Movers and Shakers.” Rosner’s work advising the successful 2002 Bolivian presidential race of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is the focus of an award-winning documentary film, “Our Brand is Crisis.”

Before joining GQR, Rosner served as Special Adviser to President Clinton and Secretary of State Albright, with the responsibility of leading the administration's drive to add Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to the NATO Alliance. He was responsible for designing and implementing the administration's ratification strategy and for coordinating outreach to the Congress, public, and press. The Senate voted 80-19 in favor of ratification on April 30, 1998.

From 1993-94, Rosner was Special Assistant to President Clinton, serving as Counselor and Senior Director for Legislative Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In that position, he was responsible for coordinating legislative work on national security by the White House, State Department, Defense Department, and Central Intelligence Agency. As NSC Counselor, Rosner also designed communications strategies for the NSC, and served as President Clinton's principal foreign policy speechwriter, working with the President on such events as the 1993 signing of the PLO-Israeli peace agreement, and the 1994 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of D-Day.

From 1994 to 1997, as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rosner directed the Endowment's research on the role of public opinion, Congress, and other domestic factors on U.S. foreign policy. Rosner has also served as an adviser for a wide array of political leaders, organizations and private sector executives. He was a senior aide to U.S. Senators Bob Kerrey (D-NE) and Gary Hart (D-CO), and earlier, Senior Speechwriter for the 1984 Mondale for President campaign. He served on both the staff and National Governing Board of Common Cause, and has worked as a consultant for corporate CEOs, union presidents, and the late Ronald Brown during his campaign for the Chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.

From 1991-1993, Rosner served as Vice President for Domestic Affairs at the Washington-based Progressive Policy Institute, the in-house think tank of the Democratic Leadership Council. He was a contributing author of PPI's Mandate for Change (Berkeley Books, 1992), the volume widely seen as the policy blueprint for the first term of the Clinton Administration; and contributing author of With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Rosner is the author of The New Tug-of-War: Congress, the Executive Branch, and National Security (Carnegie, 1995), as well as articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Miami Herald, The Financial Times, and numerous other publications. His analysis of U.S. foreign policy has been featured on CNN, the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and National Public Radio. Rosner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and served as co-chair of the bi-partisan U.S. Committee on NATO.

Rosner has been an adjunct professor at American University and has lectured at several other universities. He holds a Doctorate in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (2007), where his dissertation analyzed how members of the U.S. Congress develop their impressions of what public opinion is regarding national security issues. He also holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1982), and a BA in Politics, summa cum laude, from Brandeis University (1979). Rosner lives in Maryland with his wife and two children.