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.
His clients at Cast from Clay have included Save the Children, the World Resources Institute, the World Economic Forum, and CPRE, the countryside charity. 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 interview series to hear first-hand from secretaries of state, ministers, and political advisers what actually works when it comes to policy influence.
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. He has recently completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Aston Business School.
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