Peter Kellner

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Peter Kellner 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 educated at Minchenden Grammar School, London and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and has an MA in Economics and Statistics from Cambridge University.

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.^[1]

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.^[2] He can currently be heard on a series of online podcasts commenting on developments in the 2008 US presidential election.

He now lives in St Albans with his wife, Catherine Ashton, Labour member of the House of Lords, and their son and daughter.

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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)