Keiran Pedley
Keiran Pedley, Research Director, Public Affairs, UK
Keiran is an expert on elections, political polling and public opinion research and leads on several aspects of Ipsos’s political research and commentary. With more than 16 years experience in the research industry, Keiran specialises in providing data driven insights to clients across a range of disciplines and sectors.
Keiran is a regular media commentator on politics and public opinion and regularly contributes to other media news outlets such as Sky News, BBC News, Times Radio, and LBC. His written analysis on polling and public opinion can also be found in a regular column for The Evening Standard as well as The Times Red Box, the New Statesman, the Telegraph and other media outlets.
Keiran contributed a chapter on the role of polling in UK democracy in the book ‘Political Communication in Britain: Campaigning, Media and Polling in the 2017 General Election’, Palgrave, 2019.
Keiran also presents the Ipsos Politics Talk podcast – a regular show dedicated to taking a data driven look at the world of politics and public opinion in the UK and elsewhere.
Broadcast & press
Some of Keiran’s recent appearances in the media and press include:
- Speaking on LBC , explaining the Exit poll after the 2024 general election
- Speaking on CNBC at College Green the night after the general election discussing the results
- Writing for The Evening Standard on the comeback of Nigel Farage