Kantar Public Hires UK Head of Population Studies

Kantar Public has appointed Ben Humberstone, a former Deputy Director at the Office for National Statistics in a newly created role, Head of Population Studies for the UK

Humberstone (pictured) will lead the national statistics and longitudinal studies team for Kantar Public UK. He joins from the ONS where most recently he was Deputy Director, Head of Health Analysis and Life Events, and earlier Head of Population Statistics and Programme Director for the Census Transformation Programme. In his new role, he will oversee the division's extensive portfolio of large-scale and often complex population and longitudinal studies national and local governments and NGOs.

The division's UK CEO Craig Watkins says of the move: 'I am absolutely delighted Ben is joining Kantar Public. Ben will help drive the next stage of innovation and growth for our national statistics team in the UK. His extensive background in population studies and national statistics brings our clients deep expertise in creating the whole-population evidence needed to inform contemporary public policy in Britain. Ben joins us during a very exciting time of change and innovation in our business'.

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