Ed Manley is a Professor of Urban Analytics in the School of Geography, and member of Institute for Spatial Data Science (ISDS). He is affiliated with the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) and Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL).

Ed joined Leeds from UCL in 2019, where he completed his Engineering Doctorate, before moving onto becoming a Lecturer and Associate Professor at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Ed is an Associate Editor of the Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy journal, was previously a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, and chaired the GIScience Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society between 2018 and 2021, where remains a Fellow. He was winner of the Phillip Leverhulme Prize for Geography in 2022.

Ed is the Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Environment, co-Director of LIDA: Societies, and co-leads the Special Interest Group in Behavioural Models and Machine Learning at the Alan Turing Institute. Previously he served as Director of Research, Interim Vice Dean: Research in the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, and Interim Co-Head of School.