Marta Lagos is one of the most influential voices in Latin America when it comes to understanding the region’s political changes. She has spent more than forty years conducting and analyzing surveys. In 1995, she founded Latinobarómetro, the most prestigious annual public opinion survey in the continent, which bases its measurements on more than 20,000 interviews across eighteen countries.
Lagos was director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Reality (CERC), where she created a system that has monitored Chile’s transition to democracy up to the present day.
She also heads the consulting firm MORI Chile, through which she has conducted opinion studies in more than twenty countries. Additionally, she is part of the research group for the World Values Survey and serves on the committee that organizes the World Electoral Systems Study. She is also a board member of the Women’s World Banking organization and a consultant for several international organizations.