Tom joined the European Climate Foundation (ECF) as UK strategic communications manager in June 2015. In this role, Tom directs the UK work of an international network of political communications experts focusing on climate change and its solutions. As a communications professional, he specializes in climate, energy and sustainability-related work. Before joining ECF, Tom was an associate director with APCO, working on secondment with Abu Dhabi's clean energy company Masdar. Prior to this, he spent time with a range of international corporate communication consultancies including Burson- Marsteller and Bell Pottinger. A few of his clients during the eight years Tom worked in consultancy include Ford, Accenture and the International Monetary Fund. He has also worked as an energy campaigner for Greenpeace in the UK and led communications for the Association for Decentralized Energy.