Ed Leighton | Director of Strategy
The Connection Project

Ed Leighton is Strategy Director of The Connection Project, a not-for-profit cross-sector coalition of businesses and civil society groups with an aim of making the digital society work for everyone. TCP are building a consensus and a plan for how to deliver simple, useable services that everyone can use, and deliver a transition to a digital world that is designed to bring everyone with us. Ed leads on the strategy and policy development to build the commercial and citizen cases for doing digital differently. Ed joined after over 15 years at Ofcom, where he was acting Group Director for Strategy and Research, following four years as Strategy Director. During that time Ed led Ofcom’s work on TV distribution, media literacy, digital transitions, and previously managed their fibre broadband strategy.