research and teaching
At King’s College London, Ed was Visiting Professor (2015-2020) and is now Professor of Political Economy (2020-) in the Department of Political Economy and the Policy Institute. He is in his ninth year co-teaching a graduate class on The Treasury and Economic History since 1945 with Professor Jon Davis and Lord Nick Macpherson. At Harvard Kennedy School, Ed was a Senior Fellow (2015-2017) and is now Research Fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (2017-). He has led a project on the evolution of central banking post-financial crisis; collaborated, initially with Peter Sands, with a team of Harvard graduate students on the impact of Brexit on British business and the future of Global Britain; and is currently leading a project on UK growth and regional policy. He has given seminars at Harvard, Yale, NYU, Stanford and USC, the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Department for Housing and Levelling-Up, as well as regularly at King’s College, London.
Britain’s growing regional divides
Central Bank Independence Revisited
Britain after Brexit
Kings Teaching: The Treasury & Economic History since 1945
International monetary fund, OECD and European union
Ed was the Chair of the IMF Committee deputies 2001-2004 and has worked as consultant at the IMF, the OECD and the EU, where he has advised on fiscal frameworks and performance budgeting.
Fiscal frameworks and Performance Budgeting
Globalisation and Inclusive Prosperity
Ed co-chaired the Center for American Progress Inclusive Prosperity Commission with former US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, which reported in January 2015. In 2017, he toured Australia with former Treasurer Wayne Swann talking about lessons from the Global Financial Crisis.
Inclusive Prosperity
Global Financial Crisis::
Ten Years On