Hafez Albukari President, Yemen Polling Center (YPC), Yemen Specialized on Media and public opinion research .He worked as a journalist for several Yemeni and foreign media outlets from 1995- 2005. From February 2004 onwards, he held was elected for the position of the general secretary of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate until he resigned in 2006. From October 2006 - September 2007, he was a research fellow at National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington DC and did a research on reviewing the templates of measuring press freedom environments and practices in the Arab World. He writes irregularly for number of Yemeni and foreign publications. In 2005, he founded YPC. As president of YPC, Hafez Albukari has designed and managed a large number of projects focusing on public opinion research including but not limited to, democracy, elections, political parties, Media, governance, human rights, social development, and corporate governance. Several of these projects also included research publications and training for respective stakeholders.