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Ben has over a decade of experience in social, political and reputational research across Australia, Asia Pacific and the UK, with extensive experience in managing large and complex quantitative and qualitative research programs.

Ben has advised commercial, government and NGO clients, with areas of focus including target audience and general public sentiment, issues management, campaign and communication design and evaluation, employee engagement and political polling.

Prior to joining SEC Newgate, Ben was a Director of Political Polling at YouGov. In 2021, Ben delivered one of the first Multi-level Regression and Post-stratification (MRP) political polls to be launched in Australia, a large and high-profile survey that measured levels of public sentiment on climate and environmental issues broken down to all 151 individual federal electorates.

Ben is a member of The Research Society, a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner and holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from Aston University, UK.