Dr Tim Evans
PhD, BA
Fields: Political Sociology; Libertarianism and Enlightenment thought

Dr. Tim Evans is President of the Libertarian Alliance (UK), Managing Director of Farsight SPI, and Senior Fellow in Personal Liberties at the Adam Smith Institute. He has an outstanding record in promoting private sector reforms to politicians and opinion formers around the world. A former President of the Centre for the New Europe (2002-2005), between 1993 and early 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. He is widely credited as being the major driving force behind the 2000 Concordat which was described by the Financial Times as the most “historic deal in 50 years of British healthcare”. Prior to that (1991-1992) he was the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister – Dr. Jan Carnogursky - and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In the late 1980s he was the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and subsequently became a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute. In 1993 he was awarded his PhD from the London School of Economics. A political sociologist by background, he has taught at a number of academic institutions over the years including post-graduate Social Policy at London’s Guildhall University and Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s Police Staff College at Bramshill. A regular commentator on television and radio, his articles have appeared in the Guardian, Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Europe and a host of other newspapers around the world. The author of numerous books, monographs and articles, he has been published by the Adam Smith Institute, Centre for the New Europe, Fabian Society, Institute of Economic Affairs, Fraser Institute, Libertarian Alliance, Heritage Foundation, and the Independent Healthcare Association.