The Anger of Nations: Trump, Trudeau, Merkel, and Farage in an Age of Voter Rage

Nik Nanos

A trusted researcher and strategic advisor, Nik Nanos has the most distinguished and consistent track record of reliability in the Canadian public opinion research industry. He is regularly called upon by senior executives to provide counsel on a wide range of issues including corporate mergers, public advocacy campaigns, reputation management and regulatory issues and leads Nanos Research. The Nanos Research Group of Companies includes Signal Leadership Communications, a social public relations firm with images to create, issues to manage, relationships to build and reputations to protect in a digitally disrupted era. It also includes Nanos-dimap Analytica, an analytics and targeting research practice which is a joint venture with dimap, one of Germany’s top research organizations. In addition to his weekly Nanos Power Index which charts the strength of the federal political parties, Nik leads the team behind the weekly Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, considered a must-have resource for senior executives and streamed to Bloomberg subscriber terminals globally every Monday. He is the pollster of record for CTV News, Canada’s largest private broadcaster, the Globe & Mail, Canada’s national newspaper and Bloomberg News in Canada.

Mark Pickup

Mark Pickup is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford.

Mark is a specialist in Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. Substantively, his research primarily falls into four areas: political identities and vote choice; the economy and democratic accountability; conditions of democratic responsiveness; and polls and electoral outcomes. His research focuses on political information, public opinion, political identities, the media, election campaigns and electoral institutions within North American and European countries. His methodological interests concern the analysis of longitudinal data (time series, panel, network, etc.) with a secondary interest in Bayesian analysis.

Jeff Peterson

Born and raised in the U.S., Jeff Peterson is a regular commentator on U.S. politics.  As a member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada, Jeff has organized, chaired and spoken at numerous AmCham programs on U.S. politics.  He’s also half of CBC Radio’s “American Panel” and has spoken to many groups on U.S. political matters.  Jeff is a partner in the U.S.-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and has been practising U.S. business law in Vancouver since 1994.