Tom began his career at Edelman as a corporate communications strategist, advising global brands like Unilever, PayPal, and Toyota, as well as managing Edelman’s thought leadership platform, the Trust Barometer. Stints at thought leadership consultancy Reputation Leaders and data science consultancy Black Swan followed.
Tom has been a guest speaker and lecturer at several dozen institutions, including the Cambridge Union, the World Bank, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, SOAS, and the Brookings Institution. He runs the ‘Policy Unstuck‘ series to learn from policy experts, as well as being an irregular contributor and judge for PRWeek.
Tom holds an MA in Terrorism, Security & Society from the War Studies Department of King’s College London, and a BA (Hons) in Middle Eastern History from the University of Manchester.
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