James Zogby

James Zogby
James Zogby in Redmond, Washington 2010
Born	James Joseph Zogby (from Arabic: زغبي‎‎, Zuġbīy) 1945 (age 71–72) Utica, New York
Residence	Washington D.C. area
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Le Moyne College, B.A. Temple University, Ph.D
Known for	President and Founder of Arab American Institute
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Eileen P. McMahon
Children	5
Relatives	John Zogby, brother Selwa Stemmer, sister

James Joseph "Jim" Zogby (born 1945) is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.–based organization which serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. He is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world. In September 2013, Zogby was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom by President Obama. Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee.

Zogby's father, Joseph, immigrated from Lebanon, entering the United States in 1922. He eventually obtained citizenship through a government policy of amnesty, and worked as a grocer. He married Celia Ann, a teacher, also born with the surname "Zogby"; they lived in Utica, New York, where their children were born. Zogby, like his parents, is Catholic.

He attended Le Moyne College in Syracuse New York where he graduated in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Temple University in 1975. He studied at Princeton University in 1976 as a National Endowment for the Humanities post-doctoral fellow.

For the past three decades, Zogby has been involved in a full range of Arab American issues. During the late 1970s, Zogby was a founding member and leader of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. In 1980, he co-founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee with former U.S. Senator James Abourezk and served as executive director until 1984. In 1982, while at ADC, Zogby helped create Save Lebanon, Inc., a private non-profit, non-sectarian humanitarian relief organization to fund social welfare projects in Lebanon and health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war. In March 1985, Zogby founded the Arab American Institute, of which he is still president.