Committees

Our Committees make ESOMAR possible.


Fellow ESOMAR members give their time voluntarily to prepare guidance, launch inspiring initiatives, and bring you and the community together with a common purpose.

Led by your peers, working for you

Much of the work of ESOMAR is made possible by the tireless efforts of community members like you, who are willing to give their time to work on concrete tasks in service of the community. Through our Committees, we ensure that our work is impactful and applicable to you, wherever you are.

Statutory Committees

Our permanent committees, established under our Statutes, help drive strategic projects essential to building an enabling environment for you and your organisation. They monitor developments, initiate projects, issue guidance and guide our resources to meet your needs.

Professional Standards Committee

ESOMAR’s Professional Standards Committee brings together a range of industry experts to help develop and guard these principles worldwide. This enables ESOMAR to issue you relevant and fit for purpose guidelines.

In the event of a complaint, the PSC is also responsible for investigating any breach of the ICC/ESOMAR International Code.

Judith Passingham
ESOMAR Committee Member, Chair of the Professional Standards Committee at ESOMAR
Kathleen Frankovic
ESOMAR Committee Member, Consultant at YouGov
Philippe Guilbert
ESOMAR Committee Member, Consultant at Syntec Conseil
Jon Puleston
ESOMAR Committee Member, Chief Methodologist at Ipsos
Prof. Dr. Raimund Wildner
ESOMAR Committee Member, Vice-President at Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions, Member at ESOMAR Professional Standards
Melanie Courtright
Chief Executive Officer at Insights Association, Member at ESOMAR Professional Standards
Kathy Joe
ESOMAR Staff, Consultant to ESOMAR PSC at ESOMAR
Vinay Ahuja
VP of Analytics & Insights, P&G Europe at Procter & Gamble, Member at ESOMAR Professional Standards
Jennifer Hubber
Global Head of Insights and Analytics at Campari Group
Georgiana Degeratu
Policy Manager - Marketing and Advertising at International Chamber of Commerce, Member of ESOMAR PSC at ESOMAR

Disciplinary Sub-Committee

ESOMAR's Disciplinary Sub-Committee supports the Professional Standards Committee by addressing your complaints together with the executives of the Professional Standards team. They work to resolve your complaints as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.

Judith Passingham
ESOMAR Committee Member, Chair of the Professional Standards Committee at ESOMAR
Kathleen Frankovic
ESOMAR Committee Member, Consultant at YouGov
Prof. Dr. Raimund Wildner
ESOMAR Committee Member, Vice-President at Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions, Member at ESOMAR Professional Standards

Disciplinary Committee

The ESOMAR Disciplinary Committee is the final and highest port of call for any disciplinary procedure. Chaired by an independent legal expert, the Committee draws upon the most experienced researchers to form an investigatory panel for each complaint. The Committee ensures the highest levels of discretion, scrutiny, and independence when dealing with any complaint.

Alexander Singewald
ESOMAR Committee Member
Daniel Cuende
Director at CUENDE
Sandeep Arora
President at Market Research Society India

Legal Affairs Committee

ESOMAR's Legal Affairs Committee brings together some of the industry's leading data protection, compliance, and public affairs experts. Their role is to monitor emerging regulations and laws that may impact you and ensure you benefit from a good understanding of their key requirements.

Additionally, the Legal Affairs Committee is often tasked with supporting our industry advocacy efforts meeting with legislators and regulators worldwide to raise awareness of your needs and your value to modern societies.

Kim Smouter
ESOMAR Committee Member, Chair of ESOMAR's Legal Affairs Committee at ENAR
Anne-Marie Horgan
ESOMAR Committee Member
Brian Perreault
ESOMAR Committee Member, Sen. Director and Associate Gen. Counsel, Privacy at comScore
Cici Fang
ESOMAR Committee Member, Director GSP APAC & Asia Business Development at Dynata
Mariana Mendive
ESOMAR Committee Member, Global Legal Counsel at SKIM
Marie De Cordier
ESOMAR Committee Member, Director of Gov. Relations & Public Policy Europe at Nielsen
Ravinder Roopra
CPO/DPO Head of Privacy at Kantar
Richard Gibbs
ESOMAR Committee Member
Rupert van Hüllen
ESOMAR Committee Member, Global Chief Privacy Officer, Ipsos at Ipsos

Associations Executive Committee

ESOMAR's Associations Executive Committee helps coordinate the Associations Service of ESOMAR towards the community of national and international associations, which promote the values of the ICC/ESOMAR Code within their local communities. Their role is to support capacity-building and encourage joint working to strengthen the application of the ICC/ESOMAR Code and its principles worldwide.

Dominique Servant
ESOMAR Committee Member, Chair of the Associations Executive Committee at ESOMAR
Ms. Siew Hoong Chan
Regional Asia Lead at Flavor Division Takasago International Pte. Ltd.
Mitali Chowhan
Director General at Market Research Society India
Alessandra Frisso
ESOMAR Representative, Commercial Director at H2R Pesquisas
Philippe Guilbert
ESOMAR Committee Member, Consultant at Syntec Conseil
Dr. Otto Hellwig
Corporate Integration Director at Bilendi
Hana Huntová
CEO at SIMAR
Hiroyuki Ichinose
Consultant at Japan Marketing Research Association (JMRA)
Jonathan Karanja
Managing Director at Frontier Consulting Services Ltd
Adrian Kohan
ESOMAR Representative, Founder at Gentedemente
John Tabone
ESOMAR Committee Member, Chief Executive Officer at Canadian Research Insights Council
Oana Popa Rengle
Founder at Anamnesis

Project committees

Our project committees are established to achieve a specific task, from selecting the content featured at an event to meet your expectations or executing initiatives that may benefit you.

Programme Committees

Our programme committees and advisory boards help us deliver inspiring content to our event programming by identifying hot emerging topics impacting you, chairing our sessions to ensure you get the most out of them, and helping us source inspiring and thought-provoking contributors.

Research World Editorial Board

The Research World Editorial Board supports the Research World team deliver great content by identifying hot emerging topics, sourcing inspiring and thought-provoking contributors and evaluating content to ensure it's relevant for you.

Simon Chadwick
ESOMAR Individual Member, Managing Partner at Cambiar Consulting, Editor in Chief of Research World at ESOMAR
Jack Miles
Senior Research Director at Northstar Research Partners, UK, Research World Editor in Chief, Online at ESOMAR
António Almeida
ESOMAR Staff, Marketing Strategy at ESOMAR, Online Coordinator and Podcast Producer at Research World
Angela Canin
ESOMAR Staff, Head of Business Development & Sales at ESOMAR

Flagship Series Advisory Board

Our flagship series offers you great content delivered on our digital platform. The Advisory Board supports us to select for you the best content and hottest contributors as our community anticipate changes in the business environment.

Congress Programme Committee

The flagship summit of our community connecting you with your global peers around the world. Our Programme Committee helps define our programme and select the best peer content and hottest contributors to inspire you. They are key to ensuring that every minute of our event is relevant for you and your objectives.

Graeme Lawrence
Managing Partner at Human8, Belgium
Barry Watson
President at Environics
Caroline Frankum
Global CEO Profiles Division at Kantar
Charles Wilson
Director CI & Analytics at New Balance
Diego Casaravilla
Founder at Fine Research
Emily Huang
Associate Manager at Nielsen
Fenny Léautier
ESOMAR Corporate Member, Head MI & Analytics Personal Health at Philips, Netherlands
Neha Firdous
Manager - Consumer Insights at Amazon