Ed Mayo (born 14 April 1964), is the CEO of the London-based charity Pilotlight. He is the former Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, the UK trade association for co-operatives and former Chief executive of the British National Consumer Council (NCC) and CEO of the NCC's successor, Consumer Focus.Alt URL
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Education

Mayo was educated at Downing College, Cambridge – reading philosophy – and

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. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

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in 2007.

Career

After a short period as a management consultant at

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, Mayo joined the

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, serving as acting Director until 1992. Mayo rose to prominence as director of the

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(NEF) from 1992 to 2003. He led NEF from two to fifty staff, creating the leading ' think-and-do tank', looking at ethical market activity, local economies and public service reform. NHS Foundation Trusts were an idea partly inspired by NEF and Mayo, particularly his October 2001 pamphlet, ''The Mutual State'', published with Mutuo, a think tank set up by the Co-operative Party. NEF also co-ordinated the Jubilee 2000 campaign during this time, for which Mayo was the strategist. It gained 24 million signatures for the worldwide

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on development and poverty. In 2003, he left to become chief executive of the National Consumer Council, staying with the organisation for 5 years. In 2008, the National Consumer Council merged with energywatch and Postwatch to form Consumer Focus, a move which Mayo oversaw as he became chief executive of the new organisation. In July 2009, he announced that he would be resigning to take up the position of Secretary General of Co-operatives UK following the retirement of its Chief executive Dame Pauline Green. He took up the position officially the following November.

Other activities

Mayo has also been involved in other regeneration, development and community projects. He has been on the board of

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, War on Want, the Fairtrade Foundation, the Local Investment Fund, Social Investment Forum and www.oneworld.net, a popular portal on human rights, development and environment. He has advised

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on enterprise and led the development of the new Community Investment Tax Credit introduced by

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. He is also an honorary Vice-president of the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies. He was the founding chair of the London Rebuilding Society and is involved in his local community as a

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charity, linking up communities in Deptford and

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through music and culture. In the field of economics, Mayo is a fellow of the

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and addressed the annual summit in Davos from 2000 to 2003 on issues of economic change and

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. In June 2003, Mayo joined the NCC. That year ''

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'' nominated him as one of the top 100 most influential figures in British

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and in November 2004 commented that 'from cancelling third world debt to justice for working-class consumers, Ed Mayo is a key figure in social innovation. He was nominated a 'Young Global Leader' by the World Economic Forum in January 2005. ''The Power of Information: An Independent Review'' by Mayo and Tom Steinberg was published in 2007; as was the official government response to it. He is married with three children and lives in

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Publications

*''Poverty, social exclusion and microfinance in the UK'' with Rogaly and Fisher,

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Books 1999 *''Brave new economy'' ( CD-ROM),

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2000 *''Banking and social cohesion'' with Christophe Guene, 2001 *''The Mutual State'', Mutuo October 2001 *''Building the mutual state'', ed. with Henrietta Moore, Mutuo 2002 *''The organics tax credit'', NEF 2002 *Life saving: Community Development Credit Unions'' with Mick Brown and Pat Conaty, NEF, the National Association of Credit Workers and

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References

External links

Interview
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