The Rt Hon Ed Balls
Biography
Ed Balls is Co-Chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. Ed is a broadcaster, writer and economist and is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. He was UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011-15) and served in the British Cabinet as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (2007-20).
His popular BBC TV series ‘Travels in Trumpland: with Ed Balls’ was broadcast in July 2018 and a second series ‘Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls’ aired on BBC 2 in January 2020. Ed has also presented the BBC TV series ‘What Britain Buys And Sells In A Day’ with Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey which broadcast in October 2019. Ed was part of the core ITN Election night team in 2017 and 2019, and broadcasts regularly on BBC’s The One Show, Radio 2 and Radio 4.