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Ed Balls |
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Ed Balls has been a Member of Parliament for Normanton since May 2005, and was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in May 2006
Balls published a 1992 Fabian pamphlet advocating Bank of England independence, while an economics leader writer for the Financial Times from 1990 to 1994. He went on to play a central role in making this one of the Labour government's key reforms, working as Economic Adviser to the then Shadow Chancellor Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP 1994-97; Secretary Labour Party Economic Policy Commission 1994-97; Economic Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997-99 and Chief Economic Adviser to the HM Treasury 1999-2004.
As Vice-Chair of the Fabian Society in 2006, Balls launched the Fabian Life Chances Commission report in April 2006 and opened the Society's Next Decade lecture series in November 2006, arguing for closer European cooperation on the environment. He opened the Fabian Society's New Year Conference The Next Decade in January 2007.
Balls was born in 1967 and educated at Nottingham High School; Keble College, Oxford; and the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He is a member of the TGWU and The Co-operative Party and a former chair of the Fabian executive. |
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