Regeneration and Renewal blogger Tim Williams is director of Publicani consultancy and is currently working on projects in Australia where he now lives and the UK. He is a former special advisor to the Blair government and the Welsh Assembly Government. Prior to moving to Australia in December 2010 he was a managing director in Navigant Consulting’s 70 strong public services team.He has worked on projects for ,or advised, CEOs and key decision-makers in major public and private organisations in the UK such as Lend Lease , Homes and Communities Agency, Tenant Services Authority, National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts(NESTA), HOME(one of the UK’s biggest social housing providers),London Councils, London Mayor,DCLG,Olympic Legacy Company ,English Partnerships and a dozen London Boroughs including Ealing ,Tower Hamlets,Hackney, Barking and Islington.In Australia he has written a major report on broadband and public services for Huawei, the second largest electronics company in the world and is an advisor to Coffs Harbour and Knox City councils in New South Wales and Melbourne respectively. He is currently working on a project for the major Australian social/community housing providers and a digital strategy for Coffs Harbour.He will this week be in New Zealand briefing politicians and business people on his broadband report on New Zealand.

Tim has a Ph.D from the University of Wales,a degree in history from Cambridge, a teaching certificate from Oxford and was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple.he thinks he intellectually peaked at 18….

Email: tim.williams@haymarket.com and tiwilliams@bigpond.com