Dr. Michael Robbins serves as the director and co-principal investigator of Arab Barometer. He has been part of Arab Barometer since its inception and served as its director since 2014. Robbins has led or overseen hundreds of surveys around the world and is a leading expert in methods for ensuring survey data quality.

Bjorn Janssen has been working as a project manager/account manager for many years for the Data collection department at Statistics Netherlands, in particular for the data collection of individuals and households. He has been project manager of almost every survey concerning individuals, for instance the Labour Force Survey, the crime survey, surveys on working conditions, the housing survey and the important Dutch survey called “The Netherlands in numbers” for The Netherlands Institute for Social Research.

Barry Schouten is a senior methodologist at Statistics Netherlands and until recently held a special professor chair on new forms of data collection at Utrecht University. His work and research have been focused on survey nonresponse, mode effects, adaptive survey design and smart surveys. He has been active in various international projects funded by the EU and by Eurostat on innovation in household surveys. He co-authored the 2021 handbook Mixed-Mode Official Surveys. Design and Analysis.

Maen Salhab is a senior statistician at the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), with over 26 years of experience in official statistics, specializing in household surveys and data collection methodologies. He currently serves as Director of the Statistical Yearbooks Department and has held several key leadership positions, including Acting Director General of Statistical Planning and Development and Acting Director General of Censuses.

Ansgar Steland is a German mathematician and Professor of Stochastics at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2006, he has held the Chair of Stochastics within the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Economics. His research focuses on statistical inference, time series analysis, change-point detection, high-dimensional statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and stochastic processes. Steland has also held academic positions at the Technical University of Berlin, the European University Viadrina, and Ruhr University Bochum.

Karthik Bharath is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests are in geometric statistics, functional and shape data analysis, stochastic processes, and quantum information, supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (USA), National Institutes of Health (USA), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K. He is also the Chair of the Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society, and an Associate Editor of Biometrika.