Jon Clifton is CEO of Gallup global analytics and advisory firm. Previously at Gallup, he was global managing partner in the consulting division. Author of the 2022 Wall Street Journal bestseller “Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness,” Clifton has contributed to The Economist, BBC and Harvard Business Review. He has also presented on the firm's research at the United Nations, International Association for Official Statistics and World Bank, testified in front of Congress, and been interviewed on BBC News, C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" and Al-Jazeera. Clifton is a nonresident senior fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion as well as a board member of Gallup and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.