Conrad Hackett

Conrad Hackett is a demographer specializing in cross-national measurement of religion and how religion influences demographic processes, such as population growth.

Prior to joining the Pew Forum, Conrad was a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His co-authored studies in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion include analyses of cross-national religious composition, strategies for measuring evangelicals, the social integration of practitioners of non-Western religions in the United States and an award-winning paper about the effectiveness of faith-based organizations . 

In the past, he has conducted research on faith-based organizations, inter-religious friendships, religion and socioeconomic status, and the religious marketplace on college campuses.

Conrad received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He also earned two master's degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary.