Tim Evans is Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University London. He is also a Senior Fellow with the world-class think tank, the Adam Smith Institute. In the past he has consulted with the global corporate affairs leaderships of many of the world’s largest companies including Pfizer, ExxonMobil and Microsoft. A former President and Director General of the Centre for the New Europe (2002-2005) in Brussels, between 1993 and 2002, he was the Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London where he oversaw the political affairs and public relations of the UK’s independent health and social care sector, which at the time, employed 750,000 people and represented more than 3 percent of UK GDP. In this role he was credited widely as being the major driving force behind the ‘2000 NHS/Independent Sector Concordat’ which was described by the Financial Times as the most “historic deal in 50 years of British healthcare”. Now benefiting more than 400,000 NHS funded patients a year, in 2014 alone, the work generated additional revenue of £1.2 billion. In 1991, Tim was the Head of the Slovak Prime Minister’s Policy Unit in the Slovak Republic making him the most senior British policy adviser in the former Soviet bloc. Prior to that he had been the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies where he worked alongside the former Chief of the Defence Staff, Field Marshall the Lord Sir Edwin Bramall. Tim has a M.Sc and a PhD from the LSE and in 2011 gained an MBA from the Open University Business School. In 1988 he was awarded a NATO sponsored post-graduate Certificate in National Security from the Christian-Albrechts University, Germany. In 2006, was made a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. His articles have appeared in the Daily Telegraph, City AM, The Economist, Guardian and the WSJ Europe.