Sir Robert Milton Worcester

Chancellor of the University of Kent (2006-2014)

Biography

Sir Robert is the Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), London. He is a Past-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). In 2005 he was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of the “outstanding services rendered to political, social and economic research and for contribution to government policy and programmes.”

Sir Robert was the Chancellor of the University of Kent from 2006 to 2014. He was also Visiting Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King’s College London. He is author/co-author, co?editor or editor of more than a dozen books and many articles in newspapers, magazines and in peer-reviewed professional journals. His most recent book is with Roger Mortimore, Paul Baines, and Mark Gill is Explaining Cameron’s Coalition (2010).