Partner and Associate Director, EU & Global Trade and Investment at Boston Consulting Group, London. Tim is a senior expert in geopolitics and trade working within Boston Consulting Group’s Global Advantage practice. He advises public and private sector clients globally on geopolitical and business strategy, with a particular focus on the future of Europe and the intersection between climate action and trade. He has published widely on a range of related topics including geopolitics and private equity, geopolitics and climate, and carbon border adjustments. Before joining BCG, Tim had a long career as a policymaker with the UK Government and the European Commission, spending over a decade in Brussels focussing on EU single market and trade issues. More recently he was a policy advisor on EU and trade issues for the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (2017-2019) and Policy Director for the UK’s leading manufacturing trade association.