Martin Lewis CBE

Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, is a campaigning broadcast journalist who is founder and Chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, by far the UK’s biggest consumer website – over 8m people receive his weekly email. He has completed 11 series of his eponymous, now live, prime-time ITV show, his podcast is one of the BBC’s most listened to, he guest presents Good Morning Britain, is resident expert on This Morning and elsewhere. 

In 2016 he founded and funded the influential Money and Mental Health Policy Institute charity, which he still chairs. Over the years he’s spearheaded major financial justice campaigns including bank charges reclaiming (over seven million template letters downloaded), PPI reclaiming (a jaw-dropping £34.4 billion has been paid out) and a successful large-scale campaign to get financial education on the national curriculum.  

He was seen as a key voice in the pandemic both to help people financially navigate through it, and in getting government to adapt its support schemes. He is currently playing a similar role in the cost of living crisis. 

In January 2022 Martin was awarded a CBE for consumer rights and charity work. In profile pieces, the Financial Times called him “the most successful journalist in the world, ever”, The Guardian “the most trusted man in Britain” and The Economist said he “has a good claim to be the most influential man in British politics”.