Matthew Maxwell Scott is the executive director of the Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO), a membership body created in 2019 to represent the interests of consumers as claimants in the civil justice system.
A former parliamentary candidate and current county councillor, he worked for a decade at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) before becoming speechwriter to the chief executive of RSA Insurance and then to the director-general of the BBC.
More recently, he was government relations lead for Slater & Gordon before establishing his own consultancy in 2018. He is also a director of the Abbotsford Trust.