1st issue - October 9 2006

Gallup Europe’s latest News

Appointments

Gallup Europe is happy to welcome aboard Femke De Keulenaer who is now working as Consultant and Aurélien Renard our new Business Development Manager.

Femke De Keulenaer joined Gallup Europe in August. With her education in Survey Methodology and her expertise in statistical modelling and data analysis she will serve as consultant for several of the ongoing studies at Gallup Europe working on the planning design and analysis of the survey data.

Femke studied Sociology at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and obtained her postgraduate education in Quantitative Analysis for Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Brussels. After receiving her degree she was a research assistant at the University of Antwerp working on the multidimensional measurement of poverty and social exclusion. Between 2000 and 2005 she was a research assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders; her doctoral research focuses on non-response and attrition in the Panel Study of Belgian Households over its 11-year history given the dynamics of entry and exit from the panel. In 2001 she was visiting the University of Nebraska to take part in the exchange program of the Gallup Research Center and the Catholic University of Brussels.

Aurélien Renard has recently been appointed Business Development Manager at Gallup Europe. His main functions lie in business strategy and development media relations and communications corporate relationship project management and also to a lesser extent in policy research and analysis.

Aurélien studied in France the US and UK and holds a Master degree in Management from Audencia Nantes Ecole de Management and a postgraduate degree in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po). He previously worked in the marketing consumer intelligence department of Philips Consumer Electronics in Amsterdam and at the French Embassy in Brussels in the Office for Economics and Commercial Affairs. More recently Aurélien was a consultant for a Brussels-based public affairs consultancy where he had been mainly involved in policy analysis and counselling with a focus on ICT research and innovation. He also participated in the setting of a European platform advocating the interests of the innovation-ecosystem actors.

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