Jason Mander

As Chief Research Officer, Jason oversees all of GlobalWebIndex’s content – producing trends on key digital topics and authoring the company’s flagship quarterly reports on social networking, mobile/tablet usage, e-commerce and brand engagement.

Jason also manages the Market Report series - analysing trends in each of the 32 countries surveyed by GlobalWebIndex – and has released a number of Audience Reports examining behaviours and attitudes among high-interest target groups such as Teens, Influencers and Parents. He is a regular public speaker as well as a frequent contributor to articles, new stories and TV coverage across such titles as BBC News, the Guardian, Bloomberg and NBC.
Prior to this, Jason was Head of Insight at Future Foundation; during his time there, he launched the company’s US service, oversaw its Beyond 2020 innovation series, managed its Quant, Intelligence and Forecasting departments and served as an Account Director for a number of global brands. Jason first began working with trends as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Building on a PhD in the Social Sciences, he published a book through Cambridge University Press, presented at a number of international conferences and was fortunate to visit more than 100 different cities in the name of research.