Mr Eric Salama

Eric is the Chairman and CEO of Kantar, WPP's information, insight and consulting division. Kantar carries out a range of work for clients around the world, from innovation and new product development to optimisation of marketing spend and measurement of television ratings.

Between April 1994 and October 2002 Eric was a Main Board Director of WPP and was the Group's Strategy Director.  He was also the CEO of wpp.com, the Group’s vehicle for developing its digital capabilities.  Prior to that Eric was Managing Director of the Henley Centre, Europe's leading consumer consultancy.  He started his career as a researcher and speechwriter to the Labour Party Foreign Affairs Team in the House of Commons. 

Eric has a BA in politics, philosophy and economics from Trinity College, Oxford and an MSc with distinction in economics from Birkbeck College, London.

He is an advisor to the UK Government on a variety of issues.