Digital Safety in an Interconnected World

Ed Mayo is Chief Executive of Consumer Focus, the new consumer organisation for Britain. He has been described by the Independent as "the most authoritative voice in the country speaking up for consumers" while the Sun says “all power to consumer champion Ed Mayo. He’s got his work cut out combating every one of the million ways in which Brits are ripped off”.

Launched in late 2008, Consumer Focus is a new statutory body merging energywatch, Postwatch and the National Consumer Council. It champions the interests of consumers across England, Wales, Scotland and, for post, Northern Ireland.

Ed has worked in the non-profit and the private sector and was the strategist behind the world’s most successful anti-poverty campaign, Jubilee 2000. A passionate campaigner on consumer issues, Ed has helped to start a range of public interest initiatives, including the Fairtrade Mark, the London Rebuilding Society and the cultural charity, MERRY, which links Deptford in South London to Mozambique. In June 2003, Mayo joined the National Consumer Council as Chief Executive. That year The Guardian nominated him as one of the top 100 most influential figures in British social policy 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 is nominated a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum.

Ed has co-written a book, “Consumer Kids”, published by Constable and released in early 2009.