Stephan Shakespeare is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of YouGov plc, a leading market research and polling company based in the UK and operating in America, Germany, the Middle East and the Nordics. Stephan is one of the pioneers of internet research and drives the company's innovation-led strategy. He is also Chairman of the Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age, a group dedicated to advancing the web-powered relationships between consumers, business and government. Stephan is also Chairman of PoliticsHome. Previously he was a school-teacher and founding Principal of Landmark West School in Los Angeles. He studied English at Oxford University.

STEPHAN'S FAVOURITE SITES

Physorg.com - The best way to keep up with new discoveries; the clearing house for universities’ scientific research PR releases.

Twitter - If you follow the right organisations and people you get the best possible curation of news and opinion.

Le Grove - An Arsenal fan’s blog that has been rightly critical of manager Arsene Wenger.

An apology! The last three are all sites that I helped start:

ConservativeHome - The Sunday Times has said that this site (and the next site) are constantly read by David Cameron.

PoliticsHome - A non-partisan Westminster insiders’ “Bloomberg of politics”.

YouGov@Cambridge Partnership between YouGov and Cambridge University bringing the finest minds to the best polling!

10 May 2011