Overview

Tim Cullen is Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation at Saïd Business School, in which he teaches ethics in negotiation. He also heads the consulting firm, TCA International Policy Management, which focuses on issues of economic development, governance and integrity, and the management of reputational risk/opportunities for countries and companies. He is also a Commissioner on the Financial Supervision Commission of the Isle of Man Government.

Tim’s early career was with Ford Motor Company in the UK and in Dearborn Michigan (1969-1975) and Continental Bank in Chicago (1975-78). He joined the World Bank in 1978 and became Chief of External Relations in the European Office in Paris in1984. He returned to Washington as the Bank’s Chief Spokesman and Director of the Information and Public Affairs Division in 1990, with responsibility for relations with a wide range of external constituencies. He has written extensively on issues of sustainable development, governance, and on Yugoslavia and its successor countries.

Tim received an MA from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is a guest lecturer in the Global Journalism Master’s Program at Örebro University in Sweden and teaches business ethics in executive education programmes for various international organizations. He is a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford.