Martin Lewis CBE, the Money Saving Expert, is a campaigning broadcast journalist who founded and is now Executive Chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, by far the UK’s biggest consumer website with over 9m people receiving his weekly email. His eponymous, now live, prime-time ITV show, started in 2012 and is now in its 15th series - it manages to combine a public service remit and high ratings. His podcast is one of the BBC’s most listened to, he is a regular presenter of Good Morning Britain, and resident expert on This Morning. In profile pieces, the FT 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...
Martin Lewis CBE, the Money Saving Expert, is a campaigning broadcast journalist who founded and is now Executive Chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, by far the UK’s biggest consumer website with over 9m people receiving his weekly email. His eponymous, now live, prime-time ITV show, started in 2012 and is now in its 15th series – it manages to combine a public service remit and high ratings. His podcast is one of the BBC’s most listened to, he is a regular presenter of Good Morning Britain, and resident expert on This Morning.
In profile pieces, the FT 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.
Over the years he’s spearheaded major financial justice campaigns including £1bn of bank charges reclaiming back, £10bn of PPI reclaiming back and got financial education on the national curriculum. He was a key voice in the pandemic to improve and communicate state support schemes, and got major policies shifts on energy and mortgages amidst the cost of living crisis.
In 2016 he founded and funded the influential Money and Mental Health Policy Institute charity, which he still chairs.
Selected awards include:
– CBE (2022) for broadcasting and consumer rights, OBE (2014) for consumer rights and charity.
– The BAFTA Special Recogition Award (2026) for his TV campaigning work
– Broadcast Awards Special Recognition Award (2024)
– The Outstanding Achievement Award at the Edinburgh TV festival (2024)
– Royal Television Society Special Award for ‘changing an entire genre of journalism’ (2024)
– National Television Awards, inaugural Expert (2022) winner, Top Presenter nominee (2023)
– New Statesman Positive Impact in Society Award (2022)
– Chartered Trading Standards Institute Hero Award (2018)
– Beacon (Philanthropy) Trailblazer award (2017)
