Ed Whiting

Chief Executive, Leeds City Council

Ed was born and grew up in Leeds and started as Leeds City Council’s Chief Executive in January 2025. Ed has spent most of his career in the Civil Service, including as part of the Financial Stability Unit of HM Treasury through the 2008 to 2009 financial crisis, and at No10 Downing Street between 2014 and 2016. Between 2016 and 2022, Ed was Director of Strategy at the Wellcome Trust, where he led the creation of a new strategy to solve the urgent health challenges of infectious disease, mental health and the impact of climate change on health.