David Metz, Senior Vice President of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates, has provided qualitative and quantitative research and strategic advice to dozens of non-profit organizations, government agencies, businesses, and candidate and ballot measure campaigns in over 40 states since joining the firm in 1998.

With a focus on environmental and conservation issues, Metz has provided research and consulting to help win voter approval for five successful statewide bond measures providing $15 billion to protect land and water in California, as well as major state and local conservation finance measures in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Hawaii.  In 2006, he designed FMM &A’s research opposing two statewide “regulatory takings” measures ( California ’s Prop 90 and Washington ’s Initiative 933), in each case helping lead successful come-from-behind campaigns.  Metz has provided research on voters’ environmental beliefs to numerous conservation organizations, among them the Nature Conservancy, the League of Conservation Voters, Environmental Defense, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Trust for Public Land , the Sierra Club, and the National Audubon Society.   

Metz’s other work on ballot measure campaigns has included successful efforts to pass statewide tobacco taxes or clean indoor air measures in California, Colorado, Florida, and Arizona.  Metz also provided research and strategic advice to the successful campaign to pass Arizona's Proposition 202, which received more votes than two competing measures and established a new legal structure for Indian gaming in one of the most expensive and hard-fought campaigns in state history.

While at FMM&A, Metz has also specialized in providing community satisfaction, policy development and ballot measure feasibility surveys for major cities, including Oakland and San Jose , as well as numerous other local and regional government agencies. Mr. Metz has also served as FMM&A's lead research analyst for numerous candidates for public office, including U.S. Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Patty Murray (D-WA), and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

David Metz received his Bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard University in 1993. He received his Master's in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley in 1998. Metz is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and may be reached at FMM&A's Oakland office at (510) 451-9521, or at dave@fmma.com.