Peter Kellner
| Peter Kellner | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 2, 1946 |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Ashton |
| Children | 5 |
Peter Jon Kellner (born 2 October 1946) is a journalist, political commentator and President of the YouGov opinion polling organisation in the United Kingdom. He is known for his appearances on TV, especially at election times. He was born in Lewes, educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Cricklewood (and later Elstree), Minchenden Grammar School, Southgate, north London, and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and has an MA in Economics and Statistics from King's College, Cambridge.
His maternal grandmother was a Suffragette and his father was a Jewish refugee from Hitler. He has stated that he learned from them that "Politics isn't just about data collection and tables and regression analysis, it's about justice, about truth and about liberty."[1]
Formerly the political analyst of the BBC Newsnight current affairs programme, Kellner was engaged by YouGov's founders, Stephan Shakespeare and Nadhim Zahawi, in December 2001. When YouGov floated for £18 million in April 2005, Kellner owned 6% of the company.[2]
Over the last 30 or so years he has been a journalist with The Sunday Times, The Independent, New Statesman and Evening Standard newspapers.
He has also been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Institute for Policy Studies, London and has advised several large corporations.[3] He is the Chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society. Kellner is a trustee of Action on Smoking and Health UK.
In 2011, he received a Special Recognition Award from the Political Studies Association in recognition of his achievements in "bringing polling and intelligent use of numbers and figures to election coverage".
He is married to Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, a Labour Party politician and the first High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. They have two children.[4][5] Kellner has three other children.[citation needed]
[edit] Bibliography
- 1976. Callaghan: The Road to Number 10, (with Christopher Hitchens), Cassell, ISBN 978-0-304-29768-9
- 1980 The Civil Servants: an Inquiry into Britain's ruling class (with Lord Crowther-Hunt)
- 2009 Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty Mainstream, ISBN 978-1-845-96506-8
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Kellner. Acceptance Speech. Political Studies Association Special Recognition Award 2011.
- ^ Interview: Peter Kellner, YouGov (Evening Standard), David Rowan, 20 April 2005
- ^ Peter Kellner's Column, YouGov
- ^ "Person Page – 12633". thepeerage.com. 9 May 2006. http://www.thepeerage.com/p12633.htm. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
- ^ Marriages and Births England and Wales 1984-2006
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