Jane Green is a public communicator and academic who specialises in British politics, elections (US and US), public opinion, and explaining public attitudes.
She is an award-winning public communicator and member of the ITV News elections team, which has twice been nominated for BAFTA awards for its election night programmes. She gives keynotes and speeches on understanding the electorate and elections (UK and US) and is known for her accessible, ‘human’, compelling, and warm style.
The Evening Standard said, “Professor Jane Green can make statistics seem human and fascinating, in a way that completely eludes other experts” (9th June 2017).
Jane is based at Nuffield College, Oxford (an exemplar in the social sciences), where she is a Director of the Nuffield Politics Research Centre and a Co-Director of the gold-standard British Election Study—Britain’s longest-running social science survey. She is also a Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford’s Politics and International Relations Department.
She is the recently elected President of the British Polling Council - an association of polling organisations that publish polls and are committed to promoting transparency in polling.
Since 2015, Jane has been an ITV News election expert, presenting data, discussing results and their meaning, and leading in interpreting US elections. She has been on-screen throughout the overnight programmes for the 2015, 2017, and 2019 UK general elections, the 2016 EU referendum, and the 2016, 2020 and 2024 UK and US elections.
She is a regular commentator across national media, appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Newsnight, The Today Programme, and the Today podcast, regularly on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, The World At One, PM and Westminster Hour, and providing countless interviews across BBC national radio, Times Radio, etc., in print, and leading podcasts. She has had a speaking role at the Blue Dot Festival and the Cheltenham Science Festival in 2024 on a panel chaired by Dara Ó Briain.
Jane is the author of election books and numerous academic articles. In 2023, she received the international honour of being elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US. She is also a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences and has additional academic affiliations in the US and UK.
Books
Electoral Shocks
The Politics of Competence
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Jane Green's official speaker topics include:
- Understanding UK Elections
- Explainers on the 2024 UK General Election
- UK Public Opinion/Public Attitudes
- The Cost of Living and the Public/The Economy and Voters
- The US Elections: the 2024 Presidential Election
- How Brexit Has Changed the Basis of UK Elections
- The Importance of Political Explanation/Analysis in Public Life
- Analysing and Explaining Elections in Broadcasting
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
Feedback from In-Person Events:
“Professor Jane Green delivered the highly engaging and informative keynote at the 2023 ‘EPOP’ annual conference that we hosted in Southampton, an event attended by leading international experts and survey practitioners. The keynote drew on cutting-edge research regarding the critical role of the economy in British politics today and was accessible and authoritative in its communication. As Director of the British Election Study, and author of the books Electoral Shocks and The Politics of Competence, Professor Green offers unrivalled insights into the drivers of public opinion and elections in Britain today.”
- Will, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton and Elections Analyst for Sky News
- 2023 – Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2020 – Author of “Electoral Shocks”
- 2017 – Author of “The Politics of Competence”
- 2013 – Professor, University of Manchester
- 2012 – Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester
- 2009 – Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
- 2006 – Hallsworth Research Fellow, University of Manchester
- 2006 – Politics Tutor, University of Oxford
- 1999 – Not For Profit Campaign Manager, Oasis Media
