Mobile Phone Insurance Biography
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An ultra-specialised journalist, focusing on cutting bills without cutting back, he founded MoneySavingExpert.com in 2003 for £100. It's now the UK's biggest money site, with over 14m monthly users and 9m receiving the Martin's Money Tips email – and he remains its full-time Editor-In-Chief.
He has his own evening ITV programme - The Martin Lewis Money Show - and is resident expert on This Morning, Daybreak and BBC Radio 5 Live's Consumer Panel, amongst others.
He's often credited as the "big gob in chief" behind campaigns to reclaim Bank Charges, PPI and Council Tax with over 10 million template letters downloaded and many billions repaid. He has also been at the forefront of the successful campaign to get financial education in schools.
He's been Consumer Journalist of the Year, Citizens Advice Consumer Champion, has topped The Grocer's 2011 Retail Power100 list, was 5th in the Sunday Times Rich List Giving Index, and appeared in the ‘charity and campaigning’ section of the top 500 most influential people in the UK. He has an honorary doctorate from Chester University and, according to Google, was again the UK's most searched-for British man in 2013.
Outside the world of money, he was a Celebrity Mastermind champion in 2012, won £150,000 on Celebrity Millionaire (going to CAB), regularly appears in Countdown's Dictionary Corner, averages over 400 points a game at Scrabble and, sadly, scores similar at golf. Bizarrely, he also had a featuring credit in a top 40 single, I Fought The Lloyds.
Martin is a governor of the London School of Economics and founder and patron of the MSE Charity, which so far has seen £100,000s of grants go to consumer finance education charities.
In 2012, MSE joined the MoneySupermarket group, and Martin used some of the proceeds to set up a £10m charity fund. The first £1m is being donated to Citizens Advice. The rest will be given over the next few years, and Martin primarily aims to focus on his passions for financial education and improving mental health and debt policy.
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