As a Principal Researcher for FM3, David Metz has provided opinion research and strategic guidance to hundreds of non-profit organizations, government agencies, businesses, and political campaigns. He's provided research to win some of the nation's most expensive and contentious ballot measure campaigns, including five successful statewide bond measures providing $15 billion to protect land and water in California. He continues to provide opinion research on key message and policy issues to numerous environmental and conservation organizations, among them The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Land, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

David Metz received his Bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard University and his Master's in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley.