Tim Cowen, Fellow

Tim Cowen is CEO of T.R.W.Cowen Limited, a consultancy company set up to advise on Public Policy/Regulation, Competition and Commercial matters in the information technology sector. Tim is a member of the EU Business Affairs Council, and Chairman of the Competition Panel at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Chairman of the International Association of Commercial and Contract Management (IACCM), and a Visiting Fellow of the British Institute of international and Comparative Law (Biicl). He was awarded the title of ‘Distinguished Visiting Fellow’ at the European Business School in London in November 2008. He is a Visiting Professor at the City of London Law School, the largest law school in the UK. From qualification as a Barrister in 1986, Tim worked in private practice and industry; from joining BT in the early 1990s he held a variety of roles including General Counsel for BT’s international businesses. He is currently working on the formation of The Open Computing Alliance, an Alliance of companies in the information technology sector dealing with issues of common concern in Public Contracting, Competition and data transfer and interoperability between platforms and systems with particular reference to the shift to Cloud Computing.