The agency has promoted evaluation specialist Kelsey Beninger (pictured) to research director. Beninger joined IFF in 2019 and has worked across a range of policy areas, with a particular interest in children and family, wellbeing, and social integration.

IFF has also made several promotions to associate director: Christa Downing, Helen Greevy, Marc Cranney and Sam Selner within the research team and Eleonore Desnos in operations.

In 2020/21, IFF said it recorded a 63% increase on operating profits from the previous year.  

Jan Shury, managing director at IFF Research, said: “We now have 30 directors and associate directors in our research team – all of whom operate expertly across quantitative and qualitative methodologies and are able to deliver a range of tailor-made research solutions for our clients.”