Julie Mellor

Who is Julie Mellor?

Dame Julie Thérèse Mellor DBE is the current Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the Health Service Commissioner for England.

Mellor was born in 1957 and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford where she studied Experimental Psychology. Between 1979 and 1981, she was Eleanor Emerson Fellow in Industrial Relations Education at Cornell University. She was an employee relations adviser at Royal Dutch Shell between 1981 and 1983 and an economic development officer at Islington Borough Council between 1983 and 1984. She served as Senior Employment Policy Adviser at Greater London Council until 1986 and then at Inner London Education Authority until 1989.

In 1989, Mellor was appointed Human Resource Manager at TSB and then served as Corporate Human Resources Director of British Gas between 1992 and 1996. She then worked as a consultant on employment and consumer issues until 1999, where her clients included TSB, Motorola, Northern Foods, Xerox, the National Health Service, the Department for Education and Employment, the Home Office and the Employers' Forum on Disability.