Juan Carlos is a senior research scientist in The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. He has significant experience managing complex multi-mode surveys in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Juan Carlos has designed, conducted, and managed surveys on a variety of topics, including attitudes towards democracy, rule of law, the role of religion in public life, and issues related to public health, such as child development and housing conditions and risk factors for suicide among veterans and military service members.

He leads the partnership between NORC and the World Bank Global Indicators team to conduct their flagship Enterprise Survey, a nationally representative firm-level survey with top managers and owners of businesses in several countries in Latin America and Europe.

He has also managed a number of projects featuring collaborations with researchers such as The Wall Street Journal, Univision, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and a national economic survey of African-Americans for The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Juan Carlos has published scholarly work in peer reviewed journals as well as chapters in edited volumes and reports for public release. He is an active member of AAPOR, ESRA and WAPOR and frequently presents at survey research conferences.

Prior to joining NORC, he spent five years at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he worked as a senior survey researcher in the Project Design and Management Group. Previously, he started a survey research firm in his native country of Ecuador, where he partnered with local and international organizations such as the Constitutional Court of Ecuador and USAID to design and execute research projects on democracy development and rule of law.