Ed Williams

Trustee

Profile

Ed leads Edelman's UK and Ireland business, and is also Vice Chairman, Europe. Before joining the firm in 2011, he oversaw communications for two global media companies: the BBC and Reuters. He advises senior executives on corporate communications and strategy as well as issues and crisis management.

As a former TV and print journalist, he still likes to turn his hand to speech and op-ed writing.

Ed serves on a number of boards including the Royal College of Art, the Woolf Institute and Crisis Group's International Advisory Council. A graduate of Harvard Business School's AMP, he is one of the Evening Standard's 1,000 most influential Londoners.