Tim is an international prize-winning economist. He has taught at various UK universities for more than 30 years, and is currently visiting professor in practice at the LSE School of Public Policy and an associate member of Nuffield College Oxford. He has also held visiting positions in the US and Europe.
Tim was also a senior civil servant for just over a decade, working in five departments. He served as education adviser to the prime minister, economic adviser to two chancellors, senior policy adviser to six other cabinet ministers, as well being chief analyst and chief scientific adviser at the Department for Education.
In his time in government, he was instrumental in devising the National Funding Formula for schools, the furlough scheme, and the creation of the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset, matching education qualifications with earnings.
Tim is currently director of economics at PublicFirst Consulting, and chief analyst at Onward think tank.
