Ed Whiting

Director of Policy and Chief of Staff at The Wellcome Trust

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Director of Policy and Director's Chief of Staff, Wellcome Trust
Policy Fellow Alumnus, Centre for Science and Policy

Ed Whiting joined Wellcome in September 2016. He has worked in a number of Whitehall social and financial policy departments during his civil service career, including HM Treasury's financial stability team during the 2008-09 financial crisis. He was most recently at 10 Downing Street as Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, leading on public services.

In addition to his civil service career, in 2011-12 Ed set up and ran a small arts crowdfunding website. In 2012-13 he was an elected member of the RSA's Fellowship Council. He was awarded an OBE for public service and services to 10 Downing Street in the June 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list.

  • 29 June 2017

    2017 CSaP Annual Conference: How does academia contribute to the work of government?

    Our 2017 annual conference will bring together members of our extensive network to discuss some of the opportunities for policy makers at both local and national levels to draw on academic expertise in support of more effective policy making.

  • 8 February 2017, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health

    There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.