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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Peter Kellner

Children
  
5


Occupation
  
Journalist

Ethnicity
  
English

Role
  
Journalist

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Full Name
  
Peter Jon Kellner

Born
  
2 October 1946 (age 77) (
1946-10-02
)
Lewes, Sussex, England

Spouse
  
Catherine Ashton (m. 1988)

Books
  
The civil servants, Callaghan, the road to Number Ten, Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty

Education
  
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School

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Peter kellner


Peter Jon Kellner (born 2 October 1946) is an English journalist, former BBC Newsnight reporter, political commentator, and former president of the YouGov opinion polling organisation in the United Kingdom. He is known for his appearances on TV, especially at election times.

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Early life

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Kellner was born in Lewes, Sussex. His father, Michael Kellner, was an Austrian Jew, born in 1920, who emigrated to Palestine in 1938, after Kristallnacht, and later moved to Britain.[1]

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He was 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.

Career

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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. He has been President of YouGov since 2007, and was its Chairman from 2001–2007.

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From 1969 to 2003 he was a newspaper journalist with The Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer and the Evening Standard.

He has also been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Institute for Policy Studies, London and has advised several large corporations. 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".

Personal life

He is married to Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, a Labour Party politician and the first and former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. They have two children. Kellner has three other children from a previous marriage dissolved in 1988.

References

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