Senior Research Fellow, Hobby School of Public Affairs

Expertise: Polling and election trends and practices statewide and nationally, partisan political change in Texas

Career Highlights:

Richard Murray co-founded the Center for Public Policy in 1981, as part of UH College of Liberal Arts, that later became the stand-alone Hobby School of Public Affairs. He is known as a pioneer in the art and science of polling and elections, serving for decades as a commentator and forecaster on election night. Murray was an entrepreneur in many ways in his leadership at UH. He established the Center’s polling operations, created the Center’s Houston Government Internship Program that has matched more than 1000 UH students with public offices and organizations and launched the computer-assisted survey system for the UH Survey Research Institute.