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
Tim Williams 
Hi Tim
I came across your blog – outspoken as ever! My main work is now focused on Afghanistan where I have a carpet factory/training school and other stuff (incl poss housing development) + awareness raising work in UK. Still working with a Newham construction training co and linking them with others to import to UK Beijing-made flat pack eco housing.
Good to know you’re still alive and kicking!!
Chris
live long and prosper!
am in Sydney;drop by some time…
tim
Hi Tim,
I work on Communities 2.0 – a Welsh Government initiative that is helping communities and small enterprises make the most of the internet here. Whereabouts in Wales are you from?
Mark
From Beddau near Ponty. Have a look at my report fror Huawei on Connecting Communities:the impact of broadband on communitiews in the UK and the implications for Australia. I quote a few examples from Wales. I was Leighton Andrew’s sepcialist advisor on urban regeneration by the way
tim