Ed Balls is the Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury in the UK. He is Chairman of the IMF Committee Deputies’ Committee and represents the UK as the Chancellor’s Deputy at the G20. A student at Keble College, Oxford and Harvard University, he joined the staff of the Financial Times as an economics leader writer and columnist in 1990. In 1994, he left the Financial Times to become Economic Adviser to the Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown MP, and from May 1997 he was the Chancellor’s Economic Adviser.