Ed Williams

Primary page content

Communications expert, Ed Williams, was awarded an honorary fellowship from Goldsmiths in 2018.

As International President of Edelman, Ed Williams is one of the country’s top communications experts. He leads the 28-country Edelman business outside the United States and has worked at the firm for over a decade. Prior to his time at Edelman, he worked for the Government, the BBC and
top FTSE companies.

At Edelman, he provides executive counsel on issues and crisis, international positioning and institutional trust building programmes. 

He is Chair of the Aspen UK board and serves on a number of other boards, including the Royal College of Art, the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, International Crisis Group’s Advisory Council, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and The New European.

The one-time Goldsmiths
music student is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s AMP and regularly appears in print and on the airwaves, often commenting
on trust in the media.

Ed Williams was awarded an honorary fellowship by Goldsmiths in 2018.