for the Future. He is a vice-president of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, of the United Nations Association and of the European Atlantic Group and was president of ENCAMS (Keep Britain Tidy). He is currently a vice-president and was a trustee of Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and was a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) trustee. He is a vice-president of Protect Kent, the Kent Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. From 1993 to 2010, he was chairman of the Pilgrims Society. Worcester is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent and a Kent County Council appointed Kent Ambassador. He was a non-executive director of Kent Messenger Group and chairman of Maidstone Radio, CTR 105.4 fm, and was a non-executive director of the Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Trust until 2004. Following the sale of MORI to the French research company Ipsos in October 2005, he became chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory Board and an International Director of the Ipsos Group. Subsequently, in 2007 he became senior advisor to Ipsos MORI. Personal life Worcester is described as a "staunch monarchist". He holds joint American and British citizenship. He and his wife, Margaret, lived at the 13th-century Allington Castle, on the River Medway in Kent. Lady Margaret died peacefully on 20 December 2020, aged 87. Awards and honours He was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2005 in recognition of the "outstanding services rendered to political, social and economic research and for contribution to government policy and programmes". He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science and of King's College London, holds six honorary doctorates, and the Distinguished Graduate award of the University of Kansas. References External links LSE British Politics and Policy: Worcester's Blog – Politics Blog by Robert Worcester Public Opinion in Britain – talk by Robert Worcester at the 2001 Trilateral Commission meeting Interviewed on ANN TV 2015 about the Magna Carta and on democracy 1933 births Living people Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Voting theorists Businesspeople from Kansas City, Missouri Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom English businesspeople Chancellors of the University of Kent Fellows of King's College London American emigrants to England Deputy Lieutenants of Kent British management consultants British monarchists McKinsey & Company people Chief financial officers Honorary Fellows of the