Douglas Muzzio is the co-director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government and the founder and former director of Baruch Survey Research, both at Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs. He is a specialist in American public opinion, voting behavior, and city politics. Muzzio is also a political analyst and on-air commentator for WABC-TV and has done polling and political analysis for ABC-TV and other news organizations for more than two decades.

Muzzio’s governmental experience includes: chief-of-staff to New York City Council member-at-large Antonio Olivieri; consultant to the New York City Charter Revision Commission; research director for the David Dinkins mayoral campaign; consultant to City agencies and not-for-profit organizations, including the New York City Sanitation Department, the New York City Board of Education, the New York City Parks Council, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, and the Hispanic Federation of New York City. He is in his fourth year of developing and delivering cultural diversity training programs for the New York City Police Department.

Muzzio is currently writing a book, The Reel City: The American City in Cinema, 1896-2001 on the images of the American city in movies.