We have partnered with The Future Foundation to create Visions of Britain 2020, because of their breadth of experience and robust research methods.

Their business is to understand and forecast social and consumer trends and analyse their future implications on markets, services, brands and products. This enables us to paint an insightful and realistic picture of British society ten years from now.

The research team:

Meabh Quoirin:

Meabh joined the Future Foundation in 2002 as Head of Business Development for the both the UK and European nVision services. She was appointed Client Director in 2008 followed by Managing Director in 2009 (as part of the successful MBO team). As such, she is responsible for the effective running of Future Foundation as well as directing marketing and sales activities to accelerate the global growth of the business. Meabh also designs and delivers projects across all our client sectors including retail, media, finance and FMCG, with a particular focus on innovation. Meabh also regularly acts as the public face of the Future Foundation; as a regular spokesperson for the press and as an experienced conference speaker.

A truly bilingual French and English speaker Meabh has a varied commercial background in consulting, business development, marketing and press most notably in France, Ireland and the UK. She holds a BA (Hons) in International Business Communication from the University of Ulster as well as a Masters Degree in Socio-Cultural studies at the University of Strasbourg.

Richard Nicholls:

Richard joined the Future Foundation in July 2007 and currently serves as the Account Director for Media, Technology and Telecoms. He is responsible for managing relationships with major nVision clients within the sector such as BBC, News International and Everything Everywhere, developing new relationships with key industry players and delivering bespoke analysis and consultancy.

Richard is also the Future Foundation’s Economics Editor. He was heavily involved in the Future Foundation’s response to the recession, including a central role in composing nVision’s recession-edition Central Scenario document and the New Normal project as well as writing a number of reports and articles such as the monthly Economic Snapshot and speaking about the UK, European and Global economies at several nVision Client Conferences.

Prior to his current role Richard worked within nVision’s Business Intelligence team, managing the content of the nVision UK service. He also wrote and revised reports, managed several client accounts, and worked on consultancy projects.

Before joining the Future Foundation, Richard was a Research Executive at a Research International. He has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MA in Philosophy from the Open University.