John Clive Cecil May (born 1964) from
London,
United Kingdom, was the Vice-Chairman of the
World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement. He was elected at the 38th
World Scout Conference in
South Korea for a six-year term, the first United Kingdom Scouter elected since former
Chief Scout (later Vice-President) of
the Scout Association, Sir
Garth Morrison.
In his youth, May worked for Colony Holidays (predecessor to ATE Superweeks).
May has been a Section Leader, a District Commissioner and an elected member of the Committee of the Council.
He was appointed International Commissioner in 1991 at the age of 27.
He was a member of the organizing committee of the
21st World Scout Jamboree
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in the United Kingdom in 2007.
He was awarded the Bar to the
Silver Acorn
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for his services to Scouting in 2008.
Beginning his career in teaching, he was headteacher at Manor Farm Junior School in
Hazlemere in the late 1990s.
May was the
Secretary General of the
International Award Foundation
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, which co-ordinates and develops The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award worldwide.
May was formerly the chief executive of
Career Academies UK
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, London.
He received the
Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion in recognition of his dedication to enterprise education.
In 2014 May was awarded the
Gustaf Adolfs-märket, an award given by
Scouterna (Sweden).
In 2015 May was awarded the
Silver Wolf, the highest award given by
The Scout Association of the United Kingdom.
In 2016 May was awarded the
Bronze Wolf, the only award given by the
World Organisation of the Scout Movement.
May was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2009 and is a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Oxfordshire He was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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(OBE) in the
2020 New Year Honours
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for services to young people.
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1964 births
Living people
World Scout Committee members
The Scout Association
Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (2008)
Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award
Officers of the Order of the British Empire