Ed Balls

Biography

After a prominent political career former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls regularly presents ITV’s breakfast show, Good Morning Britain and a weekly podcast Political Currency with former Chancellor George Osborne.

Ed served in influential roles in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and UK Minister for Financial Services and the Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury.

He spearheaded the design of policies including independence of the Bank of England, the UK Fiscal Code and national minimum wage.

Ed has been nominated twice for a BAFTA for TV moment of the year on Strictly Come Dancing and as part of the ITV News General Election team.

He was also watched by millions every Saturday night on Strictly Come Dancing performing his eye-catching routines, including to PSY’s Gangnam Style.

Since leaving parliament Ed has been hugely in demand as a TV presenter including Inside the Care Crisis with Ed Balls  which aired on BBC2.

His first BBC TV series Travels in Trumpland: with Ed Balls was broadcast in July 2018 and a second series Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls was also shown on the BBC.

Ed has also presented the BBC TV series What Britain Buys And Sells In A Day and regularly appears on The One Show, Radio 2 and Radio 4.

He also appeared weekly on Channel 4’s The Andrew Neil Show.

Ed is also Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-Chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.

He has also written for the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, New Statesman and Tribune and co-authored a number of books and papers.

He is Vice President of Action for Stammering Children, a Patron of the British Stammering Association and a Patron of Whizz-Kidz.