Industry icon Simon Chadwick is the managing partner of Cambiar, a management consulting company dedicated to the market research industry. Before founding Cambiar in 2004, Simon was Global CEO of NOP World, prior to which he ran six research companies within Kantar.

Simon is active in the leadership of the marketing research and data analytics industry and is a past chair of the Insights Association and of its predecessor, CASRO. He and his colleagues at Cambiar are prolific authors and commentators on the research profession and publish a series of studies on the state of the industry every year.

In addition to his role at Cambiar, Simon is editor-in-chief of Research World, ESOMAR’s global magazine, and serves on the Board of Directors of a number of research-related companies.

Simon is a Fellow of the Market Research Society. He holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University.