Ed is a Partner at Public First. Before taking up this role, he was one of the most experienced and respected education journalists in Britain. He was deputy editor of the Times Educational Supplement (TES) for seven years, a role he combined with being comment editor and before that he was news editor for five years. He has also written for most national papers including the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph and the Independent. He offers high-value counsel and insight on media affairs, public opinion and policy formulation to many of Public First’s major clients including Cambridge University, the Sutton Trust and the Department for Education. Ed's PF team led the research and provided the secretariat for the Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes.