1. Peter Jon Kellner was born on 2 October 1946 and is an English journalist, former BBC Newsnight reporter, political commentator, and former president of the YouGov opinion polling organisation in the United Kingdom.
10 Facts About Peter Kellner
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Peter Kellner is known for his appearances on TV, especially at election times.
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Peter Kellner's father, Michael Kellner, was an Austrian Jew, born in 1920, who emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938, after Kristallnacht, and later moved to Britain.
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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.
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Peter Kellner was President of YouGov from 2007 until 2016, and was its Chairman from 2001 to 2007.
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Peter Kellner has been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Institute for Policy Studies, London and has advised several large corporations.
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Peter Kellner was the chairman of NCVO until 2019 and visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe.
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Peter Kellner was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for charitable services as chair of the NCVO.
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Peter Kellner is married to Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, a Labour Party politician, formerly High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the first person to be so appointed.
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Peter Kellner has three other children from a previous marriage dissolved in 1988.