Joe Twyman Announced for BE Connected celebration
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Attendees to FMBE’s BE Connected winner’s celebration will leave with insight into people the UK electorate and their shopping habits courtesy of guest speaker Joe Twyman.
The event itself is free to attend, on Tuesday 13th March at The Woodman, Highgate, though places are limited and there are only a few registered places left.
Joe is head of political and social research Europe for, YouGuv and will be a familiar face to any avid viewers of politics on TV.
Joe was a founder of YouGuv in 2000 and held a variety of senior positions within the company. This included spending two and a half years in Baghdad as a director of YouGov’s Iraq operation from 2007 to 2010, working closely with organisations such as the United Nations Development Programme and the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission.
Joe is an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield, a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and a lecturer in research methods at the University of Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection. In addition he is the author of a number of academic journal articles.
He frequently provides expert analysis for both the national and international media including BBC television and radio, Sky News, ITN, Reuters, Bloomberg, GMTV and CNBC. On the night of the 2015 General Election he was the on-screen polling analyst for the Sky News live broadcast and was also named a ‘World Opinion Leader for the 21st Century’ by El Comercio newspaper in Ecuador.
