Jason Mander

Jason leads the research and insight departments at GWI, overseeing the company’s flagship study on the digital lives and lifestyles of consumers across 48 countries. He also directs GWI’s thought leadership program, focusing on the topics that matter most to today’s marketers, planners and researchers.

Jason regularly writes about the latest trends influencing a vast range of audiences, markets and sectors, including recent reports published in collaboration with LinkedIn, Reddit, Snap and Slack. He’s also developed GWI’s newest data sets, including GWI Kids, GWI Sports, GWI Gaming, GWI Work (a deep dive into B2B professionals), and GWI USA (examining contemporary attitudes, behaviors and sentiment among American consumers).

A regular public speaker, Jason has presented at numerous conferences and is a frequent contributor to titles like WARC, Think with Google, BBC News, Huffington Post, eMarketer, Bloomberg and CNN.

Before joining GWI Jason was head of insight at Future Foundation. He 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, authored many articles and visited more than 100 cities as part of his research.