Access to country overviews improved
A resource offering a global snapshot
You may not know about them but a few years ago, ESOMAR's Associations Executive Committee initiated a project to collate essential information from associations, your national representatives, and legal experts from the ESOMAR community.
ESOMAR would like to take this opportunity to thank your peers, and associations partners who are making this service possible and available to you for free.
What are the country overviews?
This collated information allows you to get an at-a-glimpse understanding of essential operational and compliance requirements you need to be aware of when operating in specific markets.
This essential crowd-sourced information is boosted with additional insight gleamed from our industry reports and also provide you with trusted partners from the ESOMAR Directory should you be looking to operate in a new market.
Improvements going live today
ESOMAR is delighted to inform you that we've improved access to this information, you can now access it from our Local Networks page and from our Resources section and we've also improved the look and feel of the country pages to make the information easier to read.
Kim Smouter
ESOMAR Staff, Head of Public Affairs & Professional Standards at ESOMARKim L. Smouter-Umans is ESOMAR's Head of Public Affairs and Professional Standards, having joined ESOMAR in 2012. He heads a small team of professional standards and public affairs experts championing the value of market, opinion and social research and data analytics.
He leads ESOMAR's advocacy efforts and supervises our Professional Standards activities. Prior to working for ESOMAR, Kim served a stint as Secretary General of the European Network of National Civil Society Associations.
He has also served in various policy roles working for the North East England Office in Brussels and in the European Parliament working in the fields of social policy, education, and employment.
He holds a Masters degree in European Public Affairs and a Bachelor's degree in European Studies and is a graduate of the University of Maastricht. He is also a certified Data Protection Officer from the University of Maastricht's European Centre for Cybersecurity and Privacy.