Tom Carver
Senior Vice President
Tom Carver has more than twenty years of communications strategy and media experience with an expertise focusing on public policy and international issues. He has managed a wide variety of projects for clients ranging from the World Bank, large mining multinationals, technology companies and developing governments around the world.
Prior to joining CLS, Mr. Carver headed the Washington office of Control Risks, a global risk management consultancy. He provided risk management solutions for corporations, non-profits, and financial institutions, including brand integrity programs, political risk briefings for senior executives, design of long range capital risk assessments and due diligence in M&A situations. His work included leading a team of political and country analysts to support clinical trials of a major pharmaceutical corporation in 40 countries. He 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. Tom 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 Independent, and the New Statesman. He was a guest lecturer at the British War College. In 2002, Tom 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.
