Mister Ed

BBC Comms chief Ed Williams gets the Mail treatment today, for going on a two-month advanced business management course at Harvard, which the Mail says costs £40k.

It does at least mean that Ed at last gets an American trip. In September last year, he booked and cancelled a flight to Los Angeles, for £4782.97.   The BBC recouped all but £206.   I wonder what class he flew out to Boston ?

The BBC spokesman for the BBC spokesman told the Mail "Ed is attending it [Harvard] in his capacity as director of key department and a strategic adviser to the Board".  Headcount in external comms has been almost halved under Ed so far, so perhaps there was a course element on downsizing the downsized.  And the BBC Strategy Team will be interested to note Ed's wider brief to the Board.