Katie Watts

Katie is MSE's lead campaigner, in charge of making sure our relationships with the Government, Parliament, regulators, industry bodies and other consumer champions lead to important changes for consumers. She works alongside Martin Lewis and the MSE team to make sure consumers' voices are heard in the corridors of power and to tackle unfairness and injustices they face. Katie likes to say that her job is right there at the top of our website – "fighting your corner".

Turning her hand to all of MSE's key areas, Katie's work has led to some massive changes for the pound in your pocket. Her role in key campaigns has led to improvements in energy bill support, take-up of a crucial Council Tax discount for the most vulnerable, and increased options for those struggling with mortgage payments. Right now she is working to get buy now, pay later regulated, to bring down costly energy standing charges, to end the Lifetime ISA penalty for some first-time buyers, and to make Carer's Allowance and Child Benefit fairer – among many other things.

She is particularly passionate about ending the Wild West of scams and fraud, and tackling fuel poverty. She also likes to speak to women and girls about why and how we can work to close the women's personal finance and pensions gap.

Katie joined MSE in 2016, heading up our communications, PR and social media until she took on the campaigns role in 2022. She can also be found on the airwaves, advocating for consumers on the likes of BBC News, ITV News and more. Before that she worked in PR, representing energy, tech and consumer retail companies. She also worked for a children's safeguarding charity and still supports its work today.

In her free time, Katie is a keen open water swimmer and is a big fan of Golden Age Hollywood movies – Singin' In The Rain is her favourite. She also sits on the grant application panel for the MSE Charity and in 2023, she and five others from MSE raised thousands of pounds for the charity CALM by hiking 100km in Cambodia.