Robert Worcester
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Sir Robert Worcester Sir Crispin Tickell | |
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| Succeeded by | Gavin Esler |
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| Born | 21 December 1933 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | University of Kansas |
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Sir Robert Milton Worcester,
Early life
A Kansas City native, Worcester graduated from the University of Kansas in 1955, and following service in the US Army Corps of Engineers in Korea worked with management consultants McKinsey & Company.
Career
In 1965, Worcester joined
In the 1970s MORI was appointed as the Labour Party’s opinion pollsters and Worcester therefore acted as advisor to the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan.
He was appointed chancellor of the
Worcester was principal investigator for the World Values Survey in Trinidad and Tobago (2006, 2010) and United Kingdom (1998).[2] For two years he served as the president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research.[3] He became a Patron of the UK Market Research Society in October 2012.[4]
He is deputy chairman and trustee of the Magna Carta Trust and currently chairs the Magna Carta 2015 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, and is a governor of the
He is immediate past president and former chair of the advisory council of the Institute for Business Ethics and has been on the Corporate Responsibility Advisory Board of Camelot. He was a member of the advisory council of the National Consumer Council and Forum for the Future.
He is a vice-president of the
Worcester is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent and a Kent County Council appointed Kent Ambassador. He was a non-executive director of Kent Messenger Group and chairman of Maidstone Radio, CTR 105.4 fm, and was a non-executive director of the Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Trust until 2004. Following the sale of MORI to the French research company Ipsos in October 2005, he became chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory Board and an International Director of the Ipsos Group. Subsequently, in 2007 he became senior advisor to Ipsos MORI.
Personal life
Worcester is described as a "staunch monarchist".[6] He holds joint American and British citizenship.
He and his wife, Margaret, lived at the 13th-century Allington Castle, on the River Medway in Kent.[citation needed] Lady Margaret died peacefully on 20 December 2020, aged 87.
Awards and honours
He was appointed
He is an Honorary Fellow of the
References
- ^ "Gavin Esler appointed Chancellor of the University of Kent - News - University of Kent". www.kent.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.
- ^ "WVS Principal Investigator Sir Robert Worcester". World Values Survey. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^ "WAPOR History". wapor.org.
- ^ "Sir Martin Sorrell one of four new patrons for MRS". mrs.org.uk.
- ^ "Centennial History". pilgrimsociety.org.
- ^ Doward, Jamie; Salisbury, Josh (3 December 2017). "The opinion poll guru, the Caribbean islands and the $10m consultancy deal". The Observer – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Sir Robert receives knighthood, kentonline.co.uk. Accessed 21 December 2022.
External links
Media related to Robert Worcester at Wikimedia Commons- LSE British Politics and Policy: Worcester's Blog – Politics Blog by Robert Worcester
- Public Opinion in Britain – talk by Robert Worcester at the 2001 Trilateral Commission meeting
- Interviewed on ANN TV 2015 about the Magna Carta and on democracy
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