Ed Miliband is Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the
UK Government.

He was previously Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, where he was responsible for helping to coordinate
work across government, and leading the government's efforts to tackle
social exclusion, support the Third Sector and coordinate the
improvement of public services.

From 2006 to 2007 he was Minister for the Third Sector, supporting
charities, social enterprises and community organisations.

He was elected Labour MP for Doncaster North in May 2005.

Previously he was Chair of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers,
advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, on long-term
policy development. Before that, as a special adviser to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer after May 1997, he worked across a range of economic
and social policy areas, including taxation, public spending, and labour
market issues.

In 2003, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at
Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European
Studies. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of
Economics and a BA from Oxford University.

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