Les Mayhew is part-time Professor of Statistics at Cass Business School. He is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Actuaries and a member of the Royal Economic Society. He is a former senior civil servant and graduate of the government’s Top Management Programme. He is a former member of the Office for National Statistics expert panel that advises on population projections. His research interests include health, pensions, and health and long term care, for which he has received various research grants. He is twice a winner of the Cass research prize, winner of the University project of the year prize, and a joint winner of the Univerity research impact award.

He is managing director of Mayhew Harper Associates Ltd. (MHA), a research consultancy specialising in the use of large administrative data sets and Geographical Information Systems. MHA Ltd. is expert is joining together administrative information spanning more than one agency (for example, health, local authority and police) for addressing a range of local issues including population estimation. He advises, and undertakes various assignments for, central government, health care providers, and local authorities involving policy evaluation, resource allocation and service commissioning.