Tim Eyre is a telecommunications professional and has held senior positions in the International Telecommunication Union, British Telecom plc (BT), Botswana Telecommunications Corporation and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).He has a BSc (Eng) and MSc from Imperial College, University of London, and is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Much of Tim's work has been undertaken in developing telecommunications overseas with secondment from BT to companies in Brazil, Nigeria, Jordan, Kenya, Botswana and Fiji. He returned to BT as the first International Relations Manager for Africa and spent four years as BT's Regional Manager for Africa, the Middle East and Southern Asia.He is particularly interested in training and career development and, when working for the CTO as the Director of Business Development, ran over 200 training and consultancy projects each year in 35 commonwealth countries. In the year 2000 he developed a business simulation workshop, which was designed to prepare public sector managers for commercialisation and privatisation. With a business partner he formed Business Simulation Training Ltd and the weeklong workshop has been run in 14 countries around the world.Tim was a visiting lecturer at Essex University from 1982 to 1997 and lectured on international telecommunications to students on the postgraduate Diploma and MSc courses. He has just completed two years as an advisor to Bangla Trac Communications Limited, a newly licensed carrier headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently a mentor to students on the MBA course at Anglia Ruskin University.Specialties: Telecommunications managementBusiness trainingUniversity lecturing and mentoring