Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office
In office May 5, 2006 – present
Constituency	Doncaster North
Majority	12,656 (40.1%

Born	December 24, 1969
Political party	Labour

Edward Samuel Miliband (born December 24, 1969, London) is an English economist and British politician. He has been chairman of the Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, which directs the UK's long-term economic planning. He was elected Labour Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North in the 2005 general election.

Miliband is the son of Marion Kozak and the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband, a Belgian–Jewish refugee during the Second World War, and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Economics at the London School of Economics. After a brief career in television journalism, he became a speechwriter and researcher for Labour politician Harriet Harman in 1993, and then for Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown the following year. He has worked in an economic capacity since, although in 2003–4, he spent a year's sabbatical at Harvard University, as a visiting lecturer in government.

He is the younger brother of the MP and Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary David Miliband. Like his brother, he is often regarded as a rising star of the Labour Party.

In early 2005 he resigned from HM Treasury and, in May, was elected to Parliament. In Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle of 5 May 2006 [1] he was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office.