The double Olympic and five-time world track champion, 32, is European half marathon record holder and won the 2014 Great North Run.
The five-man British men's team also features Welshman Dewi Griffiths for the 26 March race.
Kenya's Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor will defend his world title in Cardiff.
Scotland's Callum Hawkins and English pair Matthew Hynes and Ryan McLeod complete the British men's line-up.
Gemma Steel, the 2014 European cross country champion, leads a women's team which also includes Alyson Dixon, Rachel Felton, Charlotte Purdue and Jenny Spink.
