| Mark Hugo Lopez | |
| Birth Date: | 16 April 1967 |
| Institution: | University of Maryland School of Public Policy Pew Research Center |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
| Academic Advisors: | David Card |
Mark Hugo Lopez (born April 16, 1967)[1] is Director of Race and Ethnicity Research at the Pew Research Center.[2] Lopez has authored and co-authored numerous reports on the attitudes and opinions of Hispanics,[3] education,[4] migration and immigration,[5] identity,[6] and civic engagement and voter participation.[7] [8] Lopez also coordinates the Center's National Survey of Latinos.[9]
Prior to joining the Pew, he was the research director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) as well as a research assistant professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Lopez is also a founding member and former president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists[10] as well as a former member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.[11]
Lopez is from Los Angeles.[12] He was born in a Mexican American family based in California for more than a century.[13] He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1996 from Princeton University, where his thesis advisors included David Card.[12]