The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP is the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. Before that he was Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Ed previously served as Minister for the Cabinet Office in 2007 and then as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2008 to 2010. In this role, he oversaw the introduction of the world leading Climate Change Act 2008 which made the UK the first country in the world to put climate targets into law.
Ed served in the Shadow Cabinet in a number of positions, including:
- Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero, 2021 to 2024
- Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 2020 to 2021
He was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015.
Since 2017, Ed has been the co-host of the current affairs podcast ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’.
Ed holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.
