Professor of Statistics in the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance, Cass Business School and Director, Mayhew Harper Associates Ltd

Professor Les Mayhew is based at Cass Business School, in the Faculty of Actuarial Sciences and Insurance in London. He is a former senior civil servant and graduate of the government’s Top Management Programme, with nearly 20 years of experience in the Department of Health, Department of Social Security, HM Treasury, and the Office for National Statistics, where he was also a director. In the last 12 years he has published widely on health and ageing matters including co-authoring a book on the economic impacts of population ageing in Japan. In 2008, he undertook an economic evaluation as part of Dame Carol Black's review of the health of Britain's working age population. Following a commission from the Prime Ministers Strategy Unit, in 2009 he published research entitled ‘Increasing longevity and the economic value of healthy ageing and working longer’. In 2008 he was a member of the private finance working group in support of the Social Care Green Paper, the results of which are in press. From 2006 to 2009, he was a lead evaluator in for the Department of Health’s Partnerships for Older people’s Projects (POPP) programme in which he demonstrated the financial and other benefits of care co-ordination services for older people.