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President, YouGov
Peter Kellner is the President of YouGov. He was previously a journalist and political commentator for more than 30 years, for the Sunday Times, Independent, New Statesman, Evening Standard, BBC Newsnight, BBC election programmes and Channel Four News. He has been an adviser on polls and public opinion to the Bank of England, Foreign Office, Corporation of London, National Westminster Bank plc and Trades Union Congress.
He has an MA in Economics and Statistics from the University of Cambridge. Peter is a member of the British Polling Council's committee on disclosure. He wrote the Journalists' Guide to Opinion Polls for the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and seminars. He has written, or contributed to, a variety of books and other publications about politics, elections and public affairs.
Peter has also been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, and served as a member of committees set up by the Economic and Social Research Council to commission research into elections and social exclusion.