Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz

Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, Ph.D., is Senior Director at Rosov Consulting, a professional services firm working in the Jewish communal sector. He has more than 25 years of experience conducting Jewish communal and academic research. His communal research has focused on survey design and implementation, quantitative data analysis, project management, report writing and editing, and presentations. His academic research has covered topics in the sociology, demography, and political and economic behavior of contemporary Jews.Laurence currently serves as Vice President of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, a professional organization of academic and applied researchers of contemporary Jewry, and he sits on the advisory committee of the American Jewish Year Book. He has also been an adviser to the Pew Research Center on the Center’s 2013 and 2020 national studies of US Jews and a consultant on numerous local Jewish community studies.Before joining Rosov Consulting, Laurence worked in various research roles at the Jewish Federations of North America for more than two decades, most recently as Senior Director of Research and Analysis and Director of the Berman Jewish DataBank. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Haifa and a Lady Davis Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Laurence holds a PhD in Political Science, MA in Modern Jewish Society and Politics, and BA in Political Science and Judaic Studies, all from Brown University, and a MA in Jewish Communal Service from Brandeis University,