Dame Julie Thérèse Mellor DBE (born 29 January 1957) is chair of Demos (a cross-party think-tank), chair of the Young Foundation, chair of the Federation of Industry Sector Skills and Standards and a trustee of Involve (experts in public participation), Nesta (the innovation foundation) and Clore Social Leadership. Mellor was born in 1957 and studied experimental psychology at Brasenose College, Oxford, where she is now an honorary fellow. Between 1979 and 1981, she was Eleanor Emerson Fellow in Industrial Relations Education at Cornell University.