Tom Carver has more than twenty years of communications strategy and media focusing on international public policy issues.  A former award-winning journalist, Mr Carver has worked for a wide variety of clients ranging from developing world governments, global multinationals, and institutions like the World Bank. 

Mr Carver combines his years of experience in international media with a strong strategic focus to advise clients on communication issues as diverse as Middle East peace, climate change, food security in Africa and economic reform in the Middle East. Prior to joining CLS in 2008, Mr. Carver headed the Washington office of Control Risks, one of the world’s leading political risk consultancies. There he provided risk management solutions that included brand integrity programs, political risk briefings for senior executives, long range capital risk assessments and due diligence for major M&As. He led a team of political and country analysts to support clinical trials of a major pharmaceutical corporation in 40 countries, ran crisis communications training for the International Finance Corporation and devised a crisis mitigation strategy for a large private equity investor in Africa.

Mr. Carver is a former award-winning BBC reporter. He spent 8 years as the BBC’s Washington correspondent. During that time, he covered September 11th and its aftermath, two presidential election campaigns and accompanied President Clinton, President Bush and Vice President Cheney on numerous international trips.

Mr Carver has extensive policy and political risk experience of Africa, having spent three years living and traveling in the continent as the BBC’s Africa Correspondent. He reported from Angola, Mozambique, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, chronicled the collapse of South African apartheid and the start of the Rwandan genocide.

His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the London Review of Books, the London Sunday Times, the Observer and the New Statesman. He was a guest lecturer at the British War College. Mr Carver was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his coverage of the September 11th crisis. He has lived overseas in Europe and Africa and is author of the bestselling book, “Where the Hell Have You Been?”