Dr. Campbell has 30 years experience as a research scientist, educational consultant and decision analyst. He has led many training workshops and taught several university courses, in the areas of decision science, decision support systems, education, and facilitating group meetings. He has conducted extensive research in education and social decision processes. During the last 25 years he has at times been involved in developing new techniques of citizen participation in the democratic decision process. He designed and tested in San Jose, California the first automated public feedback system using telephone and computer. He has written articles, conducted research and applied new techniques, such as the televote, in town and school system governance.

From 1965 to 1972 he led the development of objectives and measures of educational achievement in the citizenship area for the National Assessment of Educational Progress. From 1969 to 1971 he served as chairman of the citizenship education committee of the National Council of the Social Studies. He was elected twice to a local school board in California, and served as chairman of the board for one year.

In the past 15 years he has worked as a decision analyst, solving complex problems and designing systems for a variety of government and corporate clients. He has conducted more than 100 decision conferences which combined group problem solving techniques with decision analysis. Since 1990 he has consulted for schools on outcome-based assessment, and has conducted research on teaching problem-solving and decision making in secondary schools.

Vincent N. Campell received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Colorado.