Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner is Chairman of YouGov. After graduating from Cambridge in 1969 with 1st class honours in Economics and Statistics, he spent three decades as a journalist, with the Sunday Times, New Statesman, Independent, Observer, Evening Standard, BBC Newsnight and Channel Four News and politics programmes. He has commissioned, analysed and reported opinion polls in nine general elections, and participated in each of EPOP's post-election conferences on Political Communications since 1979, as well as   ESOMAR and WAPOR conferences, and the MRS's inquest seminar following the 1992 general election. An analyst on BBC election night programmes (local, by- and general elections) between 1990 and 1997, he proposed and designed the 'key wards' system currently used to derive national vote projections from council election results each May. survey 'Social and Cultural Changes in Flanders '.