Tom Carver is a strategic communications consultant based in Washington DC. He previously ran global engagement for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. During his tenure, Carnegie’s external relations operation was ranked #1 out of 6,500 think tanks worldwide, and won numerous awards, including North American Think Tank of the Year. He previously served as senior vice president at Chlopak, Leonard & Schechter, a Washington-based strategic communications consultancy. A former award-winning journalist, Carver worked for the BBC from 1984 to 2004. Prior to joining CLS in 2008, Carver headed the Washington office of Control Risks, one of the world’s leading political risk consultancies. He built a platform for Atlantic Media on critical risks with 2,000 academics as contributing experts. Carver spent seven 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. Carver spent three years based in Africa as the BBC’s correspondent. He reported from Angola, Mozambique, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, and 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 London Sunday Times, the Observer, and the New Statesman. He has been a guest lecturer at the British War College and honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his coverage of the September 11 crisis. He is the author of the bestselling book Where the Hell Have You Been?, an account of his father’s escape from a POW camp in World War II.