Angus Reid

Angus Reid (born December 17, 1947) is a Canadian entrepreneur, pollster, and sociologist. He is the chairman of the Angus Reid Institute and CEO and founder of Angus Reid Global. He is director of the Reid Campbell Group which operates Rival Technologies and Reach 3 Insights. He has written numerous columns on environmental, legal, economic, social, and political issues and is the author of Shakedown: How the New Economy is Changing our Lives. as the Canadian arm of the global Ipsos Group.

In 2004, he became CEO of Vision Critical, his son Andrew's research software development startup. Shortly after, he created Angus Reid Strategies (which integrated with Vision Critical) to apply Vision Critical's technologies to market research. In 2011, Angus Reid became the chairman at Vision Critical.

In 2014, Reid retired from Vision Critical to found the Angus Reid Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of public opinion research in Canada on critical social, economic and policy issues. And in February 2019, he returned from retirement to launch Angus Reid Global, a new market research and opinion polling firm serving businesses and organizations across Canada and around the globe.

Philanthropy Reid is the founder and chairman of the Angus Reid Institute,

Since 2011, he has been the founder and major funder for the Monarca Foundation, a Canadian registered charity dedicated to helping families with emergency food, medical supplies, and schooling in Mexico. Additionally, Reid was a major donor for the Blusson Spinal Care Center at Vancouver General Hospital in 2010, and St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg in 2001 and 2014.

Reid was the chair of the CKNW Orphans Fund between 2002 and 2007 as well as the founding chair between 2002 and 2005 at the Canada Institute: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., where he now serves as a member of the advisory board.

Reid was also a board member of the Rick Hansen Foundation between 2002 and 2008, and Nestle Canada between 1991 and 2003. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, it has the status of a registered charity in Canada.

Founded in October 2014 by Angus Reid,

In fall 2016, the Angus Reid Institute and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation partnered for a nationwide polling project. Stories from the study included Canadian views of multiculturalism in 2016, Quebec's diminished desire for separatism, and the lower levels of pride among Canadian millennials.

Angus Reid also published a column discussing the perceptions and realities of multiculturalism in Canada.

Angus Reid Group Angus Reid Group (formerly Angus Reid Global) is a market research company serving the research intelligence needs of businesses and organizations across North America.

Launched in June 2019, the company is Reid's latest business venture. a web-based public-opinion community of thousands of respondents in Canada and the United States who answer questions and surveys on various topics.

Angus Reid employs a cross-section of experts in the fields of panel management, market and opinion research, and data solutions offering research services for businesses, brands, governments, not-for-profit organizations, and others.

Angus Reid Public Opinion Angus Reid Public Opinion was a public affairs practice arm of Vision Critical, a software development company that creates online research tools. It was established in 2006 under the name Angus Reid Strategies. the Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Pacific Region in the "services" Category, and was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends in 2010. In 1996, he received an honorary Ll.D. degree from the University of Manitoba. and Carleton University (2008).