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Tim Cowen iCES Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Tim Cowen at the EBS London Graduation Ceremony

On 15 November 2008 at the EBS London Graduation Ceremony the title of iCES Distinguished Visiting Fellow was conferred upon Mr Tim Cowen, General Counsel and Commercial Director of BT Global Services.  As guest speaker at the graduation ceremony, Tim congratulated all the students on the award of their degrees and offered them the benefit of his extensive experience in the legal and telecommunications fields.

Tim read Law at Cambridge University and holds an MA in Law. During his studies he won the prestigious De Somogyi Award for European Law, and whilst training to become a Barrister, he gained the Geoffrey Vere Scholarship and the Inner Temple Award.  Following qualification at the Bar, Tim worked for 5 years in private practice in the City of London law firms of Lovell White Durrant and Baker McKenzie. From early work on deregulation and liberalisation of markets during the 1980s Tim has been involved in the International Chamber of Commerce working groups and is now BT’s ICC Council member.  Tim qualified at the English Bar in 1986, holds a current practising certificate and is a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Since May 2004 Tim has been General Counsel and Commercial Director for BT Global Services.  He is a member of the BT Global Services Executive Team, with director-level responsibility, and leads and manages Commercial Legal and Regulatory teams across 20 business locations in continental Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.  He is responsible for all law and regulation covering a wide variety of issues involving Commercial Contracts with customers and suppliers, Telecoms Law and Regulation litigation.  Most notably, Tim has personally led the negotiations of some of BT’s largest corporate transactions and commercial deals, in particular the outsourcing and ICT deals for which BT Global Services has become renowned.

(Professor Michael Scriven Director of iCES and Mr Tim Cowen)

Contribution of iCES Distinguished Visiting Fellows

During the coming semester Tim will be contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at EBS London alongside three other iCES Distinguished Visiting Fellows: Martina Bianchini (Vice President, EU Government Affairs and Public Policy, the Dow Chemical Company), Arve Thorvik (formerly Vice President European Affairs, Statoil) and Wolfgang Munchau (Associate Editor Financial Times and Director EuroIntelligence).