Teague was director of data science at the media communications agency and before that headed up the commercial planning practice at DraftFCB.

He previously worked for The Futures Company in its former guise as The Henley Centre.

Teague said: “It’s great to be back here. I am really looking forward to the challenge of utilising innovative information sources and analysis techniques in the futures space and am excited to be working with such an accomplished team of quantitative experts.”