Ed Vaizey

Background

About Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords. Former Minister and Member of Parliament with significant policy experience in telecoms, media, technology, creative industries and culture, now working with a range of TMT-focused clients in Europe and the US. Ed Vaizey was the Member of Parliament for Wantage between 2005 and 2019. He served as the UK Government Culture and Digital Minister from 2010-16, and is the longest-serving Minister in that role. He was appointed a privy councillor in 2016 and appointed to the House of Lords in 2020. In his role as minister, Ed was responsible for the roll out of the successful rural broadband programme to more than 4 million homes, the introduction of 4G, and tax credits for film, television, animation and video games, which have helped make the creative industries the fastest growing part of the UK economy. In addition, he played a key role in putting coding in the national curriculum for schools, and in attracting inward investment to the UK tech economy. Ed also helped persuade Lucas Films to make the new Star Wars in the UK, and received a credit in the first film of the series. Ed published the first White Paper on Culture in the UK for 50 years.