Roger Jowell

Sir Roger Mark Jowell, CBE was a British social statistician and academic who founded the National Centre for Social Research and the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys at City University. He played a leading role in the establishment of several of the UK's leading social surveys, most famously the British Social Attitudes and the British Election Study. He made a major contribution to the development of robust comparative research through the International Social Survey Programme and the European Social Survey.