About IPPR

Tim Finch

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Tim Finch
Director of Strategic Communications and Head of Migration, Equalities and Citizenship
+44 (0)20 7470 6106 / (0)7595 920899
t.finch@ippr.org

Teams
Citizens, Society and Economy; Global Change; External Affairs

Areas of Expertise

Migration policy in the UK
Refugee and asylum policy
Diaspora and Circular Migration
The politics of migration
Politics and the media
Strategic communications
British politics

Press experience

Tim has been a regular commentator and written widely on migration and asylum issues in the national and international press and on-line. Recent coverage includes the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, Liberal Conspiracy and Open Democracy.

Tim regularly appears on the broadcast media, recent appearances include BBC Today programme, BBC Radio 4 Analysis , BBC 10 o’clock news, Channel 4 news, Sunday Live with Adam Boulton on Sky News, and Al-Jazeera
Reports and articles.

Previous work

Before joining ippr in December 2008, Tim was Director of Communications at the Refugee Council for four years. Prior to that, he worked for a number of years for the BBC, latterly as a senior political journalist based at Westminster.
Tim was chair of Refugee Week, is a trustee of Asylum Aid and the Zimbabwe Association and helped found London City of Sanctuary. He sits on the Housing and Migration Network.

He has degrees in politics from the London School of Economics and University of Essex.

Other publications

Global Brit: Making the Most of the British Diaspora (ippr 2010) (with Holly Andrew and Maria Latorre)

Is the progressive case for migration truly progressive? (open democracy 2010)

A Future for Politics: Ways to Reform our Political System (ippr 2009) (editor with Carey Oppenheim)

Navigating the migration debate out of a dangerous cul-de-sac (ippr 2009) (with Sarah Mulley)

Shall We Stay or Shall We Go?: Re-migration trends among Britain’s immigrants (ippr 2009) (with Maria Latorre, Naomi Pollard and Jill Rutter)