Tom Carver is a Senior Vice President in Global Services and runs the Washington office of Control Risks.
He provides risk management solutions for some of America’s largest multinational corporations, financial institutions and non-profit organisations. These range from brand integrity programs, political risk briefings to senior management, design of long range capital risk assessments, due diligence in M&A situations and crisis communications. He has run a series of political analysis workshops for the World Bank, helping the Bank’s country teams to minimise their political risk exposure. He has devised the Performance Standards training program for the IFC on security and human rights.
Tom has extensive communications and external affairs experience, having joined Control Risks in 2005 following a 20 year career as an award-winning international journalist. He is also a former British army officer, and spent three years commanding a medium range reconnaissance unit in Northern Europe. Tom has a regional expertise in Africa. He spent 3 years on 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.
Tom also has an expertise in Washington and US politics, having been the BBC’s Washington Correspondent for 8 years. During his two decades with the BBC, Tom witnessed 10 wars and reported from every continent. As the BBC’s Defense Correspondent, he was imprisoned briefly by Bosnian Muslim forces and was one of the first journalists to reach Srebrenica following the massacre of thousands of Muslim men.
His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the London Review of Books, the Independent, the New Statesman. He was a guest lecturer at the British Staff College. In 2002, Tom was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his coverage of the September 11th crisis.
