Gil Yepes


José Antonio Gil Yepes is a Venezuelan sociologist president of the polling firm Datanálisis between 1989 and 2011. He was professor at the Venezuelan business school Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración from 1972 to 1990.

Background

After graduating in sociology from the Central University of Venezuela, Gil Yepes obtained a PhD in sociology and public administration from Northwestern University in the United States.

Career

Academia

Gil Yepes was professor at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración from 1972 to 1990. He also held positions at Pennsylvania State University, Andrés Bello Catholic University and Simón Bolívar University.

Business

Gil Yepes has been a director of a variety of companies, including Banco de Venezuela and Chocolates El Rey. He was director of the Caracas Stock Exchange and Caracas Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of COPRE from 1985 to 1994. Between 1989 and 2011, he was president of Caracas-based polling firm Datanálisis.

Books

  • Explorations is search of the definition and explicantes of left radical behavior among college students, 1970
  • Development of radical identities in a social circle of white Northwestern University students, Northwestern University, 1974
  • ', Tecnos, 1978, published in English as ', New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1981
  • La centro democracia: El modelo de sociedad preferido por los venezolanos. El Nacional. 2009