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Alissa Stover
Product Manager, Gallup
Alissa Stover is a Product Manager at Gallup, where she builds AI-powered data products, including work on the Gallup World Poll, which tracks the attitudes and wellbeing of people in more than 140 countries. Her path runs from professional ballet to data science to product leadership, and she brings that mix of discipline and creativity to making complex global data useful for decision-makers. Earlier, she led product for navigation technology serving U.S. crisis call centers. She is based in the Washington, DC area.
Preslav Tonkov
Senior Advisor, Global Analytics, Gallup
Preslav Tonkov is a strategic adviser to global organizations dedicated to quantifying and improving human development issues worldwide. As a Senior Advisor on Gallup's Global Analytics team, he manages a research portfolio that bridges evidence gaps for decision-makers at global NGOs, research universities and various UN agencies.
Preslav holds a BSc in International Relations and an MSc in Social Research from the London School of Economics, supplemented by a year of study at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in translating complex data into actionable insights, drawing on extensive experience at international policy forums—including the UN World Data Forum and the World Health Summit—to address the world's most critical developmental challenges.
Gallup® Intelligence: Connecting Global Research to Real-World Questions
Gallup Intelligence combines conversational AI with Gallup’s global survey data and methodological expertise to make research on people’s lives easier to explore. It draws on a distinctive foundation: more than 90 years of survey research experience and the Gallup World Poll’s nationally representative surveys across more than 140 countries, using standardized methods to support comparisons across countries and over time.
This session introduces the platform, currently in research preview, and the research behind it. A focused demonstration will show how users can ask questions in everyday language, discover relevant survey measures, compare countries, examine trends and generate aggregate tables and charts. Participants will also see how survey definitions, sources and methodological context accompany the results.
For GFCC members, the session will explore how evidence about people’s experiences can inform competitiveness strategies, research and policy discussions. Participants will see how to investigate questions about public confidence and perceived opportunity, compare national contexts and identify areas for further inquiry. They will also learn about the pilot and how their feedback can help shape Gallup Intelligence’s development.