Tom Arnold Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Leading the team responsible for UK participation and engagement with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Led the design, development, and management of the UK's new global network of Agriculture, Food and Drink Attachés. Led the team responsible for Defra's agri-food export strategy and market access delivery coordination for the Indo-Pacific region.

London, England, United Kingdom

Development, negotiation, coordination and delivery of climate and energy policy in the UK's G7 Presidency of 2021, which secured landmark commitments and created critical international momentum ahead of COP26. I led the policy team responsible for cross-cutting climate and energy policy, and the development, negotiation and agreement of the five G7 Climate and Energy Commitments to Action. After the successful G7 Climate and Energy Ministerial, my team led on the design and delivery of the newly established G7 Industrial Decarbonisation Agenda. I also produced the initial project bid and budget, and was a co-lead for recruitment of the wider G7 Climate and Energy team.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Policy lead for climate engagement relating to EU exit, followed by leading on Nordic-Baltic and nature-based climate engagement. Included a secondment to the British Embassy in Helsinki, drafting the Embassy's climate strategy for 2020.

London, United Kingdom

Drafted the UK's first strategy for food and drink exports to China (worth over £610m annually), and coordinated its implementation across government and industry. Led initial policy development on post-EU exit domestic promotion of UK food and drink.

London, United Kingdom

Policy lead for citizens' rights governance and dispute resolution with the four EFTA states. Led the secretariat for senior cross-Whitehall boards on citizens rights and mobility, and represented HMG at external citizens' rights engagement events.

London, United Kingdom

Established and led the Secretariat of the newly formed UK Trade Policy Group (TPG), leading on governance and scrutiny changes issuing from critical friend reviews.Responsible for designing the TPG skills audit and communicating its results, and producing the first TPG performance management toolkit.Led comms on changes to TPG following a group organisational design review.Nominated for the 2017 Civil Service Skills Award.

Lyon, France

Facilitating cooperation between law enforcement agencies combating forestry crime.The role involved supporting the analysis of criminal networks and trafficking routes, exchanging information with key actors in the field of forestry crime law enforcement, the organisation of international workshops, and representing INTERPOL's Environmental Security Programme at internal and external meetings. The role also involved providing spontaneous Spanish-English interpretation at the INTERPOL/TREES Joint International Meeting on Forestry Crime.

Flensburg Area, Germany

Responsible for ECMI communications and outreach; developing the website, proofreading documents before publication, supporting in the organisation of events, and cataloguing references to the ECMI in local and world media.

Flensburg Area, Germany

Teaching English language, presentation and business skills to a variety of German professionals and casual speakers. After two months in the position I was chosen to promote the company for trial lessons with prospective clients and partner companies.

Lille, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France

A six-month, full-time internship during which I undertook translation (between French, Spanish and English) and client liaison in the office of a leading French translation company.

M.A./M.Sc. European Studies, Politics, Economics And Law, Distinction (Notendurchschnitt: 1,2)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), European Studies

Activities and Societies: Academic Officer for the Modern Languages Department, Course Representative for European Studies. First class.

Ciencia Política (Political Science)

As part of my undergraduate degree at the University of Leicester, I undertook a semester-long exchange to the Universidad del Rosario.

Education record

Activities and Societies: House Captain in final year - responsible for organising events and meetings with other students I studied.