PA360: Ed Balls unveiled as 2024 conference keynote speaker

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Professional Adviser is pleased to announce broadcaster, writer and economist Ed Balls as the keynote speaker at next year’s PA360 conference in London.

Balls was a Labour MP for ten years, during which time he was economic secretary to HM Treasury and secretary of state for children, schools and families. He was appointed as shadow secretary of state for education, followed by shadow home secretary after the 2010 General Election. In 2011, he was appointed as shadow chancellor of the exchequer - a role which he held until his defeat as an MP in 2015. Balls is now a professor of political economy at King's College London, a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. He is a...

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