Young, Michael (1915–2002)

British social entrepreneur, creator of the Open University, the Consumers' Association 1957, and some 30 other organizations.

Young's first project was the Institute for Community Studies set up in the East End of London 1952. He established a number of bodies concerned with education, such as the National Extension Colleges, the University of the Third Age, the College of Health (for National Health Service patients), and the Advisory Centre for Education. He has also been active in neighbourhood development schemes and Social Democrat politics, setting up the Tawney Society and the journal Samizdat in the 1980s.