ROBERTO SURO

Director
Pew Hispanic Center

Roberto Suro is director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based research and policy analysis organization. The Center was founded in July 2001 with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Through public opinion surveys and a variety of research projects, the Center serves as a source of non-partisan information on the rapid growth of the Latino population and its implications for the nation as a whole.

A former journalist, Suro has nearly 30 years of experience writing on Hispanic issues and immigration. He is author of  "Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America," (Vintage) as well as numerous reports, articles and other publications regarding the growth of the Latino population. During his career in journalism Suro worked for TIME Magazine,  The New York Times, The Washington Post  and other publications. He worked extensively in Washington, did tours as a domestic correspondent in Chicago and Houston and was posted as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.  He is a graduate of Yale University (B.A., 1973) and Columbia University (M.S., 1974).